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El Herradero Mexican Restaurant Llc
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score45 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 31, 2026
- address8709 14Th Ave S, Seattle 98108
Is El Herradero Mexican Restaurant Llc clean?
El Herradero Mexican Restaurant Llc is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 31, 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 Herradero Mexican Restaurant Llc?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ⚠️3800 - Utensils, equipment, linens properly stored, used, handled3800 - Utensils, equipment, linens properly stored, used, handled
- 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical0400 - Hands washed as required
- ⚠️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
When was El Herradero Mexican Restaurant Llc last inspected?
El Herradero Mexican Restaurant Llc has 6 inspections on record going back to July 21, 2021, averaging 23 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2026 | Rated Good | 45 pts |
| January 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 14 pts |
| March 18, 2024 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| February 22, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| May 26, 2022 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| July 21, 2021 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
El Herradero Mexican Restaurant Llc 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 2% 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 31, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.