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Caliente Cocina Y' Tequila
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 27, 2025
- address17302 140Th Ave Ne, Woodinville 98072
Is Caliente Cocina Y' Tequila clean?
Caliente Cocina Y' Tequila is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 27, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Caliente Cocina Y' Tequila?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Caliente Cocina Y' Tequila last inspected?
Caliente Cocina Y' Tequila has 5 inspections on record going back to June 1, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 31, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| January 10, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| March 14, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 1, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Caliente Cocina Y' Tequila vs Woodinville
Woodinville runs 95% clean across 357 tracked restaurants — 339 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 357 spots Cooked tracks in Woodinville, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 May 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.