Cooked?The Kettle
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 6, 2025 →
- address1138 Highland Ave, Manhattan Beach 90266
Is The Kettle clean?
The Kettle is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on November 6, 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 The Kettle?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️CONSUMER ADVISORY PROVIDED FOR RAW/UNDERCOOKED FOOD
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScritical
When was The Kettle last inspected?
The Kettle has 3 inspections on record going back to July 22, 2024, averaging 90 points.
November 6, 2025 A
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View full inspection →July 30, 2024 A
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View full inspection →July 22, 2024 B
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View full inspection →The Kettle vs City Of Manhattan Beach
City Of Manhattan Beach runs 97% clean across 130 tracked restaurants — 126 clean, 4 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 130 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Manhattan Beach, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 November 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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