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.

• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

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.

Baja Fresh Mexican Grill vs Tukwila

Tukwila runs 90% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 266 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 297 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.

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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 April 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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