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Pizza Buona
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score95 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 29, 2025
- address922 N Alavarado St Ste C, Los Angeles 90026
Is Pizza Buona clean?
Pizza Buona is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 29, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pizza Buona?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ❓food from an unapproved source# 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLE# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLE
When was Pizza Buona last inspected?
Pizza Buona has 5 inspections on record going back to August 18, 2023, averaging 96 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 29, 2025 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| October 31, 2024 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| June 24, 2024 | Grade A | 98 pts |
| January 8, 2024 | Grade A | 96 pts |
| August 18, 2023 | Grade A | 97 pts |
Pizza Buona vs Temple-Beaudry
Temple-Beaudry runs 97% clean across 71 tracked restaurants — 69 clean, 1 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 71 spots Cooked tracks in Temple-Beaudry, this one comes out cleaner than 42% 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.
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 August 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.