Carniceria El Paisan

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score80 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedAugust 21, 2026 →
• address9629 15Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98106

Is Carniceria El Paisan clean?

Carniceria El Paisan is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 21, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Carniceria El Paisan?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical
  1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available

When was Carniceria El Paisan last inspected?

Carniceria El Paisan has 12 inspections on record going back to February 11, 2021, averaging 21 points.

Carniceria El Paisan vs White Center

White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 195 clean, 35 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 August 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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