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El Gran Taco
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 11, 2026
- address10230 16Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98146
Is El Gran Taco clean?
El Gran Taco is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 11, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Gran Taco?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was El Gran Taco last inspected?
El Gran Taco has 3 inspections on record going back to September 10, 2024, averaging 19 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 11, 2026 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| April 21, 2025 | Rated Good | 32 pts |
| September 10, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
El Gran Taco vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 March 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.