El Mercado Latino - Grocery

• ratingGrade pending
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 17, 2026 →
• address1807 Howard Rd, Auburn 98002

Is El Mercado Latino - Grocery clean?

Seattle currently lists El Mercado Latino - Grocery as grade pending, following an inspection on February 17, 2026 that scored 10 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.

What did inspectors find at El Mercado Latino - Grocery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was El Mercado Latino - Grocery last inspected?

El Mercado Latino - Grocery has 7 inspections on record going back to June 23, 2021, averaging 6 points.

El Mercado Latino - Grocery vs Auburn

Auburn runs 95% clean across 314 tracked restaurants — 298 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 314 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.

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  clean · March 18, 2026
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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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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