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El Gaucho - Bellevue
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 29, 2025
- address450 108Th Ave Ne, Bellevue 98004
Is El Gaucho - Bellevue clean?
El Gaucho - Bellevue is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 29, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Gaucho - Bellevue?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was El Gaucho - Bellevue last inspected?
El Gaucho - Bellevue has 4 inspections on record going back to September 8, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| October 25, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 1, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 8, 2021 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
El Gaucho - Bellevue vs Bellevue
Bellevue runs 85% clean across 651 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 651 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 25% 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.
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 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.