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Southern Girls Desserts
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score81 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 23, 2025
- address3650 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Ste 100, Los Angeles 90008
Is Southern Girls Desserts clean?
Southern Girls Desserts is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on January 23, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Southern Girls Desserts?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 42. TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED# 42. TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED
- 🏷️food improperly labeled# 37. ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
- ❓food from an unapproved source# 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- ⚠️# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLEcritical# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLE
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals inside# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
- 📦food stored wrong# 30. FOOD PROPERLY STORED; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ⚠️# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
- ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE
When was Southern Girls Desserts last inspected?
Southern Girls Desserts has 2 inspections on record going back to February 2, 2024, averaging 86 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 23, 2025 | Grade B | 81 pts |
| February 2, 2024 | Grade A | 91 pts |
Southern Girls Desserts vs Leimert Park
Leimert Park runs 90% clean across 60 tracked restaurants — 54 clean, 4 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 60 spots Cooked tracks in Leimert Park, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 January 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.