Waba Grill

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score97 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 20, 2025
• address6316 Figueroa St, Los Angeles 90042

Is Waba Grill clean?

Waba Grill is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 20, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Waba Grill?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
  NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
• ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
  EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
• ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
  FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN

When was Waba Grill last inspected?

Waba Grill has 4 inspections on record going back to December 27, 2023, averaging 96 points.

Waba Grill vs Highland Park

Highland Park runs 97% clean across 145 tracked restaurants — 140 clean, 5 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 145 spots Cooked tracks in Highland Park, this one comes out cleaner than 68% 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 October 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.