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El Mercado Latino
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 18, 2026
- address1514 Pike Pl, Seattle 98101
Is El Mercado Latino clean?
El Mercado Latino is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 18, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at El Mercado Latino?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was El Mercado Latino last inspected?
El Mercado Latino has 7 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2022, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 18, 2026 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| June 11, 2026 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| August 19, 2025 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| January 6, 2025 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| August 5, 2024 | Rated Okay | 45 pts |
| May 12, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| May 6, 2022 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
El Mercado Latino vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 June 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.