Arts Viva Mexico

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score37 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedAugust 7, 2026 →
• address10601 S 16Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98146

Is Arts Viva Mexico clean?

Arts Viva Mexico is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 7, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Arts Viva Mexico?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used

When was Arts Viva Mexico last inspected?

Arts Viva Mexico has 10 inspections on record going back to August 27, 2021, averaging 17 points.

How Seattle grades restaurants

Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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