Cooked?Pista House
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score59 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedOctober 16, 2025 →
- address1255 W Carson St, Torrance 90502
Is Pista House clean?
Pista House is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 16, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Pista House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️NO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENT
- ⚠️GARBAGE AND REFUSE PROPERLY DISPOSED; FACILITIES MAINTAINED
- ⚠️PERMIT SUSPENDED, REVOKED, MODIFIED, OR CLOSED FOR NO PERMIT
- ⚠️FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
- ⚠️FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATEDcritical
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScritical
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- ⚠️HANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; PROPER GLOVE USEcritical
- ⚠️TOXIC SUBSTANCES PROPERLY IDENTIFIED, STORED, AND USED
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️WASHING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
- ⚠️PROPER COOLING METHODS
When was Pista House last inspected?
Pista House has 2 inspections on record going back to November 26, 2024, averaging 75 points.
October 16, 2025 C
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View full inspection →November 26, 2024 A
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View full inspection →Pista House vs West Carson
West Carson runs 93% clean across 397 tracked restaurants — 368 clean, 23 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 397 spots Cooked tracks in West Carson, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
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How Los Angeles grades restaurants
Los Angeles County posts a letter placard in the window, and unlike New York the score runs the friendly way: higher is better. 90 to 100 points earns an A, 80 to 89 a B, and anything below that a C. The county inspects roughly every six months to a year depending on risk, and a failed inspection can close a kitchen until it is fixed. Because LA’s scores are final at the time of inspection — there is no pending window — a letter can be read straight off the score when the placard field is blank.
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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily, but the authority publishes in batches, so a recent visit may not appear yet. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.
Source: LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health via LA County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated October 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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