Tacos El Unico

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score96 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 8, 2025
• address10006 S Normandie Ave, Los Angeles 90047

Is Tacos El Unico clean?

Tacos El Unico is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 8, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Tacos El Unico?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🌡️thermometers missing
  # 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
• ⚠️# 39. WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
  # 39. WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  # 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
• 🍽️food left unprotected
  # 26. APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD MAINTAINED FROZEN

When was Tacos El Unico last inspected?

Tacos El Unico has 3 inspections on record going back to December 6, 2023, averaging 96 points.

Tacos El Unico vs Athens-Westmont

Athens-Westmont runs 97% clean across 87 tracked restaurants — 84 clean, 3 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 87 spots Cooked tracks in Athens-Westmont, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 August 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.