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Carniceria 'la Chiquita'
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score22 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedDecember 18, 2025
- address1314 Union Ave Ne, Renton 98059
Is Carniceria 'la Chiquita' clean?
Carniceria 'la Chiquita' is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 18, 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 Carniceria 'la Chiquita'?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Carniceria 'la Chiquita' last inspected?
Carniceria 'la Chiquita' has 8 inspections on record going back to May 10, 2021, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 22 pts |
| March 25, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 14, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 23, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| June 15, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| December 11, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| May 10, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Carniceria 'la Chiquita' vs Newcastle
Newcastle runs 89% clean across 153 tracked restaurants — 136 clean, 17 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 153 spots Cooked tracks in Newcastle, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 December 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.