El Farol Mexican Restaurant

• official resultExcellent
• ratingRated Excellent
• score48 pts
• inspection typeRoutine Inspection/Field Review
• failed findings5
• critical findings2

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Failed findings

• 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical
  Official wording: 1600 - Proper cooling procedure
  code 1600REDstatus: RED
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  Official wording: 2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
  code 2110REDstatus: RED
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Official wording: 3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
  code 3400
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Official wording: 4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
  code 4100
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  Official wording: 4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
  code 4300

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Excellent on May 24, 2021: Score changed by +35 points. 3 findings appeared for the first time. 2 findings recurred.

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About this record

This record comes from Public Health — Seattle & King County. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: King County Open Data.