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El Maestro Del Taco @ 1836 156Th Ave Ne
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 3, 2025
- address4727 California Ave Sw, Seattle 98116
Is El Maestro Del Taco @ 1836 156Th Ave Ne clean?
El Maestro Del Taco @ 1836 156Th Ave Ne is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 3, 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 Maestro Del Taco @ 1836 156Th Ave Ne?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was El Maestro Del Taco @ 1836 156Th Ave Ne last inspected?
El Maestro Del Taco @ 1836 156Th Ave Ne has 6 inspections on record going back to March 31, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 3, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| July 3, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 18, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| March 29, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 25, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 31, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
El Maestro Del Taco @ 1836 156Th Ave Ne vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 July 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.