Cooked?Smoking Tiger Gardena
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score94 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 12, 2025 →
- address15435 S Western Ave Ste 100A, Gardena 90249
Is Smoking Tiger Gardena clean?
Smoking Tiger Gardena is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on February 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 Smoking Tiger Gardena?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical# 08. TIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDS
- ⚠️# 38. THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
When was Smoking Tiger Gardena last inspected?
Smoking Tiger Gardena has 2 inspections on record going back to May 20, 2024, averaging 95 points.
February 12, 2025 A
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View full inspection →Smoking Tiger Gardena vs City Of Gardena
City Of Gardena runs 93% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 308 clean, 21 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Gardena, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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.
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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily, but the authority publishes in batches, so a recent visit may not appear yet. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.
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 February 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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