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Smart & Final - Pada Sushi
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score95 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 27, 2025
- address4550 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles 90019
Is Smart & Final - Pada Sushi clean?
Smart & Final - Pada Sushi is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 27, 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 Smart & Final - Pada Sushi?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScriticalPROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
When was Smart & Final - Pada Sushi last inspected?
Smart & Final - Pada Sushi has 3 inspections on record going back to September 13, 2023, averaging 97 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 27, 2025 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| July 31, 2024 | Grade A | 97 pts |
| September 13, 2023 | Grade A | 98 pts |
Smart & Final - Pada Sushi vs Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square runs 100% clean across 30 tracked restaurants — 30 clean, 0 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 30 spots Cooked tracks in Lafayette Square, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.