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El Quetzal Tienda Latina & Mini Mart
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 26, 2026
- address9240 2Nd Ave Sw, #100, Seattle 98106
Is El Quetzal Tienda Latina & Mini Mart clean?
El Quetzal Tienda Latina & Mini Mart is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 26, 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 Quetzal Tienda Latina & Mini Mart?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️0700 - Food obtained from approved sourcecritical0700 - Food obtained from approved source
When was El Quetzal Tienda Latina & Mini Mart last inspected?
El Quetzal Tienda Latina & Mini Mart has 6 inspections on record going back to August 27, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 26, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| July 18, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| April 25, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 7 pts |
| August 24, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 17 pts |
| February 18, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| August 27, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
El Quetzal Tienda Latina & Mini Mart vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.