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Red Lantern Chinese Cuisine
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 14, 2026
- address926 S Grand Ave, Glendora 91740
Is Red Lantern Chinese Cuisine clean?
Red Lantern Chinese Cuisine is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on May 14, 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 Red Lantern Chinese Cuisine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLEHOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLE
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USEEQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️NO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENTNO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENT
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
When was Red Lantern Chinese Cuisine last inspected?
Red Lantern Chinese Cuisine has 4 inspections on record going back to July 20, 2023, averaging 89 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2026 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| May 4, 2026 | Grade B | 83 pts |
| October 28, 2024 | Grade A | 93 pts |
| July 20, 2023 | Grade A | 90 pts |
Red Lantern Chinese Cuisine vs Covina (Charter Oak)
Covina (Charter Oak) runs 96% clean across 141 tracked restaurants — 135 clean, 6 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 141 spots Cooked tracks in Covina (Charter Oak), this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.
Other spots in Covina (Charter Oak)
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 May 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.