Cooked?Zen Mei Bistro
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 6, 2026 →
- address800 Yale St, Los Angeles 90012
Is Zen Mei Bistro clean?
Zen Mei Bistro is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on May 6, 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 Zen Mei Bistro?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
- ⚠️WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
When was Zen Mei Bistro last inspected?
Zen Mei Bistro has 3 inspections on record going back to March 14, 2024, averaging 90 points.
May 6, 2026 A
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View full inspection →July 3, 2024 A
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View full inspection →March 14, 2024 A
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View full inspection →Zen Mei Bistro vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 91% clean across 230 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 19 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 230 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 May 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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