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Baja Fresh Mexican Grill
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 21, 2026
- address8821 S 180Th St, Kent 98032
Is Baja Fresh Mexican Grill clean?
Baja Fresh Mexican Grill is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 21, 2026. 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 Baja Fresh Mexican Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Baja Fresh Mexican Grill last inspected?
Baja Fresh Mexican Grill has 13 inspections on record going back to April 19, 2021, averaging 5 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 21, 2026 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| January 7, 2026 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| August 29, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 17, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| August 5, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 6, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| July 21, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 16, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| September 15, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 17, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| December 8, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| August 16, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Baja Fresh Mexican Grill vs Tukwila
Tukwila runs 89% clean across 296 tracked restaurants — 264 clean, 30 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 296 spots Cooked tracks in Tukwila, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 April 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.