Taqueria El Cortez Prime Tacos

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score97 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 20, 2024
• address16220 Pioneer Blvd, Norwalk 90650

Is Taqueria El Cortez Prime Tacos clean?

Taqueria El Cortez Prime Tacos is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 20, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Taqueria El Cortez Prime Tacos?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 20, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
  # 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  # 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  # 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR

When was Taqueria El Cortez Prime Tacos last inspected?

Taqueria El Cortez Prime Tacos has 2 inspections on record going back to April 3, 2024, averaging 96 points.

Taqueria El Cortez Prime Tacos vs Cerritos

Cerritos runs 98% clean across 145 tracked restaurants — 142 clean, 2 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 145 spots Cooked tracks in Cerritos, this one comes out cleaner than 61% 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 20, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.