Azteca Mexican Restaurant

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 23, 2025 →
• address153 Sw 157Th St, Seattle 98166

Is Azteca Mexican Restaurant clean?

Azteca Mexican Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 23, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — 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 May 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Azteca Mexican Restaurant last inspected?

Azteca Mexican Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to May 16, 2022, averaging 4 points.

Azteca Mexican Restaurant vs Burien

Burien runs 89% clean across 258 tracked restaurants — 230 clean, 27 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 258 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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