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Azteca Mexican Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 30, 2026
- address11431 Ne 124Th St, Kirkland 98034
Is Azteca Mexican Restaurant clean?
Azteca Mexican Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 30, 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 Azteca Mexican Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Azteca Mexican Restaurant last inspected?
Azteca Mexican Restaurant has 8 inspections on record going back to November 22, 2021, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 30, 2026 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| September 22, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| January 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| April 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| October 31, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| December 14, 2022 | Rated Good | 6 pts |
| April 26, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| November 22, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Azteca Mexican Restaurant vs Kirkland
Kirkland runs 96% clean across 337 tracked restaurants — 322 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 337 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 March 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.