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El Quetzal
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 13, 2026
- address3211 Beacon Ave S, Seattle 98144
Is El Quetzal clean?
El Quetzal is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 13, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Quetzal?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 13, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was El Quetzal last inspected?
El Quetzal has 10 inspections on record going back to August 17, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 13, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 2, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 23, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 10, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| October 3, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 30, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| December 28, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 28 pts |
| March 3, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 17, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
El Quetzal vs Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill runs 93% clean across 240 tracked restaurants — 222 clean, 16 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 240 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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 July 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.