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Birrieria Tijuana
- ratingRated Needs To Improve
- inspection score32 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 22, 2026
- address12803 Ambaum Blvd Sw, Burien 98146
Is Birrieria Tijuana clean?
Birrieria Tijuana is currently Rated Needs To Improve from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 22, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Birrieria Tijuana?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical1600 - Proper cooling procedure
When was Birrieria Tijuana last inspected?
Birrieria Tijuana has 8 inspections on record going back to May 4, 2023, averaging 29 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 22, 2026 | Rated Needs To Improve | 32 pts |
| January 29, 2026 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| January 27, 2026 | closed by the city | 86 pts |
| April 7, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 15 pts |
| September 25, 2024 | Rated Needs To Improve | 18 pts |
| February 29, 2024 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| February 14, 2024 | Rated Needs To Improve | 63 pts |
| May 4, 2023 | Rated Needs To Improve | 18 pts |
Birrieria Tijuana vs Burien
Burien runs 88% clean across 256 tracked restaurants — 225 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 256 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.