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Azteca Restaurant
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 6, 2026
- address17555 Southcenter Pkwy, Seattle 98188
Is Azteca Restaurant clean?
Azteca Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Azteca Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was Azteca Restaurant last inspected?
Azteca Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to June 14, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 6, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 30, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 4, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 11 pts |
| April 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 24, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 21, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 40 pts |
| June 14, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Azteca Restaurant vs SeaTac
SeaTac runs 97% clean across 230 tracked restaurants — 222 clean, 7 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 230 spots Cooked tracks in SeaTac, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 January 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.