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El Mercado Latino - Meat Shop
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 17, 2026
- address1807 Howard Rd, Auburn 98002
Is El Mercado Latino - Meat Shop clean?
El Mercado Latino - Meat Shop is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 17, 2026. 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 Mercado Latino - Meat Shop?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was El Mercado Latino - Meat Shop last inspected?
El Mercado Latino - Meat Shop has 8 inspections on record going back to February 15, 2022, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 17, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| September 30, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 19, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| October 24, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 14, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| September 6, 2022 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| February 15, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
El Mercado Latino - Meat Shop vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, 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 February 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.