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Baja Tacos & Beer
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 15, 2026
- address9211 Holman Rd Nw, Seattle 98117
Is Baja Tacos & Beer clean?
Baja Tacos & Beer is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 15, 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 Tacos & Beer?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Baja Tacos & Beer last inspected?
Baja Tacos & Beer has 10 inspections on record going back to June 10, 2021, averaging 27 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 15, 2026 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| September 16, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| April 23, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 12, 2024 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| February 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| June 7, 2023 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| January 12, 2023 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| January 4, 2023 | Rated Good | 45 pts |
| August 17, 2022 | Rated Good | 60 pts |
| June 10, 2021 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
Baja Tacos & Beer vs Northwest
Northwest runs 89% clean across 91 tracked restaurants — 81 clean, 10 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 91 spots Cooked tracks in Northwest, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.