• ratingRated Good
• inspection score0 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 22, 2025 →
• address38 Front St N, Issaquah 98027

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Is El 42 Cantina clean?

El 42 Cantina is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El 42 Cantina?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on August 22, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

When was El 42 Cantina last inspected?

El 42 Cantina has 5 inspections on record going back to August 23, 2021, averaging 9 points.

El 42 Cantina vs Issaquah

Issaquah runs 94% clean across 244 tracked restaurants — 230 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 244 spots Cooked tracks in Issaquah, this one comes out cleaner than 50% 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 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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