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Arturo's Mex-Restaurant
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 21, 2026
- address22204 Marine View Dr S, Des Moines 98198
Is Arturo's Mex-Restaurant clean?
Arturo's Mex-Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 21, 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 Arturo's Mex-Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Arturo's Mex-Restaurant last inspected?
Arturo's Mex-Restaurant has 8 inspections on record going back to November 2, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 25, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| April 30, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 24, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 27, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| August 16, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 9, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 2, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Arturo's Mex-Restaurant vs Des Moines
Des Moines runs 90% clean across 164 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 164 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 19% of them.
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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 May 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.