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Surf City Squeeze
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score94 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 13, 2025
- address3650 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd # 150, Los Angeles 90008
Is Surf City Squeeze clean?
Surf City Squeeze is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on February 13, 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 Surf City Squeeze?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food# 25. PERSONAL CLEANLINESS AND HAIR RESTRAINTS
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical# 08. TIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDS
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
When was Surf City Squeeze last inspected?
Surf City Squeeze has 2 inspections on record going back to February 20, 2024, averaging 96 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 13, 2025 | Grade A | 94 pts |
| February 20, 2024 | Grade A | 98 pts |
Surf City Squeeze 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 33% of them.
Other spots in Leimert Park
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 February 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.