Cooked?South Bay Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 5, 2025 →
- address14936 Prairie Ave, Hawthorne 90250
Is South Bay Restaurant clean?
South Bay Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 5, 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 South Bay Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 5, 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
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical# 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
When was South Bay Restaurant last inspected?
South Bay Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to September 3, 2024, averaging 91 points.
August 5, 2025 A
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View full inspection →September 3, 2024 A
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View full inspection →South Bay Restaurant vs El Camino Village
El Camino Village runs 99% clean across 132 tracked restaurants — 131 clean, 1 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 132 spots Cooked tracks in El Camino Village, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 August 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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