El Farol Mexican Restaurant

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 29, 2025 →
• address1467 E Republican St, Seattle 98112

Is El Farol Mexican Restaurant clean?

El Farol Mexican Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 29, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Farol Mexican Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration

When was El Farol Mexican Restaurant last inspected?

El Farol Mexican Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to May 24, 2021, averaging 15 points.

El Farol Mexican Restaurant vs Cascade

Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 40 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 September 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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