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El Farol Mexican Restaurant

September 9, 2026 · Good

clean

official resultGood
ratingRated Good
score62 pts
inspection typeRoutine Inspection/Field Review
failed findings8
critical findings4

Failed findings

food worker cards missingcritical

Official wording: 0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
code 0200REDstatus: RED
food not cooked to safe tempscritical

Official wording: 1600 - Proper cooling procedure
code 1600REDstatus: RED
1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical

code 1720REDstatus: 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
2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control

code 2900
toxic items stored near food

Official wording: 3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
code 3300
4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections

code 4400
equipment grimy or busted

Official wording: 4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
code 4800

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Good on September 29, 2025: Score changed by +57 points. 8 findings appeared for the first time. 1 previous finding did not recur.

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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.