El Chupacabra

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score8 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 20, 2026 →
• address2620 Alki Ave Sw, Seattle 98116

Is El Chupacabra clean?

El Chupacabra is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Chupacabra?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled

When was El Chupacabra last inspected?

El Chupacabra has 10 inspections on record going back to January 21, 2021, averaging 5 points.

El Chupacabra vs West Seattle

West Seattle runs 92% clean across 227 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 227 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 May 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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