To check a Los Angeles County restaurant inspection, open the county’s Environmental Health Inspection Results search, choose Restaurants as the facility type, and search by the restaurant’s name, address, city or ZIP code. Select Inspections for the past five years of visits and Details for each report.
Open the official LA County inspection search to look up a restaurant. This independent guide helps you read the result.
LA County Environmental Health pages checked October 24, 2026.
At a glance
- Score: every inspection starts at 100, and points come off for violations.
- Grades: A 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79; 69 or below gets a score card instead of a letter. Two scores below 70 within 12 months can lead to closure (grading rules).
- Most serious violations: a Major Critical Risk Factor, which must be corrected before the inspection ends or the permit is suspended (inspection page).
- Checked: LA County Environmental Health pages checked October 21, 2026.
Checked September 6, 2026 against LA County Environmental Health’s current inspection-results and grading-and-posting pages. This independent guide should be rechecked if the County changes its search portal, grading rules, or record-access route.
This page applies only to facilities covered by Los Angeles County records. For an address outside that jurisdiction, find the official local restaurant inspection record first. After you have the record, use the restaurant score and grade guide to interpret the local scale without comparing unlike systems.
Search the premises before reading its score
The County search covers currently active facilities and displays up to five years of inspection activity. Begin with the street number and city, then compare the returned licensed name, address, and facility row. A chain name or delivery-app label is not enough to join records. If the street number belongs to an address range, use the primary address number as the County instructs.
| Search input | Use it to resolve | Evidence to keep |
|---|---|---|
| Facility type | Limit results to Restaurants, Food Markets | Selected type and lookup date |
| Street address | Separate branches and similar names | Full displayed address and city |
| Licensed name | Confirm the County’s facility identity | Exact spelling shown in the result |
| Inspection row | Choose the relevant dated event | Date, score, activity type, and Details link |
Separate the online activity row from the report copy
An activity row can establish that a dated inspection appears in the official history, while the Food Official Inspection Report supplies the individual findings and correction information. Keep those source layers distinct. For newer reports covered by the County’s August 25, 2025 rule, record the activity row and send the CPRA request to the custodian address shown on the official results page.
| You need | Official LA County route | Limit to state |
|---|---|---|
| Facility and five-year activity | Inspection Results search | Currently active facilities and the online period shown |
| Newer report copy | CPRA instructions on the same results page | Request submitted; do not imply the file was absent from County records |
| Grade rules | Grading and Posting Requirements | Applies to the County system and the identified routine inspection |
| Current recent closure view | Food Facility Closures | Recent window, not all-time closure history |
Treat the placard as one dated routine-inspection result
The County grading page says routine inspections begin at 100 points and deductions produce A, B, C, or a numeric score card. It also warns that a critical violation can support closure regardless of the numerical score. Record the exact inspection date and do not transfer one location’s card to another branch or describe the card as a permanent rating.
Restaurant Inspection Check tool · rules checked October 21–23, 2026
Inspection score reader
Pick the program that inspected the restaurant, then enter what the report or door sign shows. The reader explains it on that agency's own scale and tells you what usually happens next.
What a year of LA County inspections shows about the A in the window
We counted every routine restaurant inspection the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health recorded from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026 (LA County Open Data, Environmental Health Restaurant and Market Inspections, downloaded October 23, 2026; the county updates it quarterly). That covers 19,611 routine inspections at 17,812 permitted restaurant operations; markets are left out. The figures below are our own count, using the county’s posted grade bands.
| Card issued | Score | Routine inspections | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 90–100 | 17,494 | 89% |
| B | 80–89 | 1,535 | 8% |
| C | 70–79 | 516 | 3% |
| Score card, no letter | 0–69 | 66 | 0.3% |
- An A is the norm, so a B or C stands out. Nine in ten routine inspections ended in an A. A B or C card puts that inspection in roughly the bottom tenth of the year’s results.
- Read the number on the A. 90 was the single most common score (2,334 inspections), while 89 appeared only 19 times. 5,064 A cards, 29% of all A’s, carried 90, 91 or 92. An A at 90 and an A at 98 look the same in the window, so the score printed on the card is the detail to check.
- Many B and C cards are replaced within weeks. Of 2,051 routine inspections that ended in B or C, 973 (47%) were followed by an inspection the county’s data labels owner-initiated, a median of 14 days later, and 908 of those ended in an A. When you see an A, compare its date with the routine inspection before it.
Limits: the file covers the county health department’s area, which leaves out Pasadena, Long Beach and Vernon because each runs its own health department. Complaint visits sit outside this file, and the dataset page gives no rules for owner-initiated inspections; ask Environmental Health for those.
City and ZIP code results for the same year, including the rise in B and C grades since 2023, are in our LA County inspection results by city.
Trace the finding into its County follow-up
Use the restaurant inspection process to interpret what happens after the FOIR. An uncorrected Major Critical Risk Factor can result in permit or license suspension and a reinspection within 14 days, while other categories can have different compliance periods. The report’s category, correction status, and later event must remain together.
- Copy the violation description and County category from the selected FOIR.
- Record whether the inspector documented correction before the visit ended.
- Identify the compliance date or reinspection instruction attached to that finding.
- Open the next dated event for the same facility and match the requirement, not only the total score.
- Check the separate closure view when the record refers to suspension or an imminent hazard.
Recover a blank, incomplete, or wrong-jurisdiction result
| Search outcome | Next action | Do not conclude |
|---|---|---|
| No facility match | Retry address, primary street number, former name, and ZIP | The location was never inspected |
| Facility appears but report copy is unavailable | Use the dated CPRA route on the results page | The activity row is the full report |
| Address is in Long Beach, Pasadena, or Vernon | Use that city’s separate environmental-health authority | LA County owns the record |
| Old closure is not on the recent list | Review facility history and request the dated enforcement file | No closure ever occurred |
Read the LA County grade, record access, and follow-up together
An LA County grade belongs to one final routine inspection, not to the restaurant forever. First confirm that LA County is the inspecting authority and that the licensed facility matches the address. Then read the dated report, violations, correction status, later inspection, and any closure record as one evidence chain. Save the facility identifier, inspection date, visit type, and lookup date so another reader can reproduce the same check.
| Official record or status | How to use it without overreading it |
|---|---|
| Responsible authority | LA County Environmental Health covers most county locations, while Pasadena, Long Beach, and Vernon operate separate departments. Confirm the street address on the county jurisdiction page before searching. |
| Facility search | On the official inspection-results page, choose Restaurants, Food Markets and search by name, address, city, or ZIP. Match the licensed name and facility record; a storefront or delivery-app name can differ. |
| A / B / C / numeric score | The county’s grading rules define A as 90-100, B as 80-89, C as 70-79, and a numeric score card as 69 or below. The placard summarizes the final routine inspection; it does not replace the violation detail. |
| Correction and reinspection | The inspection-process guidance says an uncorrected major critical risk factor results in permit or license suspension and a reinspection within 14 days. Other findings can use different 14-day, 14-30-day, or next-routine-inspection windows. |
| Recent closure | Check the separate food-facility closure list. Its recent window is not an all-time history, and absence from that list is not a safety guarantee. |
| Report not shown online | The county states that restaurant and food-market reports conducted on or after August 25, 2025 must use the current records-request route shown on the inspection-results page. A missing online detail does not mean no inspection occurred. |
Method: We normalized the county’s public search instructions, placard thresholds, correction timelines, jurisdiction exclusions, closure window, and records-request route into action fields. Each CSV row retains its official source and checked date. Last checked August 6, 2026; review after any county portal, grading, inspection, or records-access change.
Scope: This is an independent routing and interpretation aid. It does not certify a restaurant, reproduce a complete inspection report, predict present conditions, or replace the current LA County record.
Write the LA County conclusion as a source-bounded timeline
The defensible result identifies the County-covered premises, the inspection date, the displayed grade or score, the report findings, and the later official action. It does not turn an old card or an empty search into a statement about conditions today.
Use Food Inspection Reports: How to Read Violations for the item detail. Continue to the reinspection follow-up check for later events, or the closure and permit-suspension check when the County record shows enforcement.