El Pollo Real #1

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 7, 2026 →
• address12449 E Marginal Way S, Tukwila 98168

Is El Pollo Real #1 clean?

El Pollo Real #1 is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Pollo Real #1?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ⚠️4600 - Toilet facilities properly constructed, supplied, cleaned
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled

When was El Pollo Real #1 last inspected?

El Pollo Real #1 has 7 inspections on record going back to November 3, 2021, averaging 16 points.

El Pollo Real #1 vs Tukwila

Tukwila runs 90% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 266 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Tukwila, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 April 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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