Cooked?Taco Bell Express
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score94 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 7, 2025 →
- address17299 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacific Palisades 90272
Is Taco Bell Express clean?
Taco Bell Express is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 7, 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 Taco Bell Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️TIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDScritical
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
When was Taco Bell Express last inspected?
Taco Bell Express has 2 inspections on record going back to October 5, 2023, averaging 97 points.
October 7, 2025 A
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View full inspection →October 5, 2023 A
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View full inspection →Taco Bell Express vs Pacific Palisades
Pacific Palisades runs 99% clean across 100 tracked restaurants — 99 clean, 1 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 100 spots Cooked tracks in Pacific Palisades, this one comes out cleaner than 27% 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.
Read the Los Angeles ratings guide →
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 October 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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