Pizza Local

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score88 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 22, 2025
• address79 Windward Ave, Venice 90291

Is Pizza Local clean?

Pizza Local is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 22, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Pizza Local?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScritical
  PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
• ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
  EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
• ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
  PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
• ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
  NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
• ⚠️PERMITS AVAILABLE
  PERMITS AVAILABLE
• ⚠️NO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENT
  NO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENT
• ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
  FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION

When was Pizza Local last inspected?

Pizza Local has 2 inspections on record going back to December 15, 2023, averaging 87 points.

Pizza Local vs Venice

Venice runs 95% clean across 333 tracked restaurants — 318 clean, 12 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 333 spots Cooked tracks in Venice, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 October 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.