El Mercado Latino Inc.

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score2 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 24, 2026 →
• address1807 Howard Rd, Auburn 98002

Is El Mercado Latino Inc. clean?

El Mercado Latino Inc. is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 24, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Mercado Latino Inc.?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment

When was El Mercado Latino Inc. last inspected?

El Mercado Latino Inc. has 9 inspections on record going back to February 15, 2022, averaging 2 points.

El Mercado Latino Inc. 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 31% 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.

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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 August 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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