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Roadside Taco
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score93 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 12, 2025
- address2827 S Hoover St, Los Angeles 90007
Is Roadside Taco clean?
Roadside Taco is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on March 12, 2025. 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 Roadside Taco?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🌡️thermometers missing# 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️# 38. THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE# 38. THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
When was Roadside Taco last inspected?
Roadside Taco has 1 inspection on record going back to March 12, 2025, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 12, 2025 | Grade A | 93 pts |
Roadside Taco vs University Park
University Park runs 94% clean across 287 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 287 spots Cooked tracks in University Park, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 March 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.