Cooked?Vicky's Salvadorean Restaurant
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score80 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 5, 2025 →
- address8420 State St # A, South Gate 90280
Is Vicky's Salvadorean Restaurant clean?
Vicky's Salvadorean Restaurant is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on May 5, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Vicky's Salvadorean Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 38. THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical# 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
- 🚻bathroom issues# 43. PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
- 🍽️food left unprotected# 26. APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD MAINTAINED FROZEN
- 🍗undercooked food riskcritical# 09. PROPER COOLING METHODS
- 🧫food prep surfaces dirty# 27. FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
- ⚠️# 01A. DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- ⚠️# 52. MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
- ⚠️# 42. TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED
When was Vicky's Salvadorean Restaurant last inspected?
Vicky's Salvadorean Restaurant has 1 inspection on record going back to May 5, 2025, averaging 80 points.
May 5, 2025 B
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View full inspection →Vicky's Salvadorean Restaurant vs Walnut Park
Walnut Park runs 89% clean across 266 tracked restaurants — 238 clean, 22 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 266 spots Cooked tracks in Walnut Park, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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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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 May 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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