Cooked?The Spot Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score93 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 3, 2026 →
- address435 W Foothill Blvd, Claremont 91711
Is The Spot Cafe clean?
The Spot Cafe is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on April 3, 2026. 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 Spot Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
When was The Spot Cafe last inspected?
The Spot Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to December 19, 2023, averaging 91 points.
April 3, 2026 A
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View full inspection →April 22, 2025 A
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View full inspection →April 11, 2025 B
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View full inspection →December 19, 2023 A
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View full inspection →The Spot Cafe vs Padua Hills
Padua Hills runs 97% clean across 102 tracked restaurants — 99 clean, 3 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 102 spots Cooked tracks in Padua Hills, this one comes out cleaner than 18% 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.
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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 April 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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