Rae's Restaurant

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score93 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 24, 2026
• address2901 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica 90405

Is Rae's Restaurant clean?

Rae's Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on April 24, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Rae's Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
  FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
• ⚠️APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD
  APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD
• ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
  EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
• ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
  NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN

When was Rae's Restaurant last inspected?

Rae's Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to December 14, 2023, averaging 92 points.

Rae's Restaurant vs West Los Angeles

West Los Angeles runs 95% clean across 539 tracked restaurants — 513 clean, 22 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 539 spots Cooked tracks in West Los Angeles, this one comes out cleaner than 37% 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 April 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.