• gradeGrade A
• inspection score92 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 1, 2025 →
• address401 N La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles 90048

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Is The Nice Guy clean?

The Nice Guy is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 1, 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 Nice Guy?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 1, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
• ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
• ⚠️ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
• ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN

When was The Nice Guy last inspected?

The Nice Guy has 3 inspections on record going back to October 25, 2023, averaging 94 points.

The Nice Guy vs Carthay

Carthay runs 98% clean across 335 tracked restaurants — 328 clean, 6 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 335 spots Cooked tracks in Carthay, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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