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El Mezcalito
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 20, 2026
- address2123 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle 98109
Is El Mezcalito clean?
El Mezcalito is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 20, 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 Mezcalito?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was El Mezcalito last inspected?
El Mezcalito has 8 inspections on record going back to June 11, 2021, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 20, 2026 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 18, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| January 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| September 10, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 21, 2024 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| January 10, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| April 4, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 11, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
El Mezcalito vs Queen Anne
Queen Anne runs 98% clean across 177 tracked restaurants — 173 clean, 4 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 177 spots Cooked tracks in Queen Anne, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 March 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.