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Carmelo's Tacos Cherry St
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score27 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 29, 2026
- address1223 E Cherry St, C121A, Seattle 98122
Is Carmelo's Tacos Cherry St clean?
Carmelo's Tacos Cherry St is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 29, 2026. 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 Carmelo's Tacos Cherry St?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️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 Carmelo's Tacos Cherry St last inspected?
Carmelo's Tacos Cherry St has 11 inspections on record going back to May 17, 2021, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2026 | Rated Good | 27 pts |
| December 12, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 3, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 19, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| May 1, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 6, 2023 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| February 14, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 13, 2023 | Rated Good | 45 pts |
| October 13, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 17, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Carmelo's Tacos Cherry St vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.