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El Ranchon Mexican Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 11, 2026
- address3416 W Mcgraw St, Seattle 98199
Is El Ranchon Mexican Restaurant clean?
El Ranchon Mexican Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 11, 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 Ranchon Mexican Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods
When was El Ranchon Mexican Restaurant last inspected?
El Ranchon Mexican Restaurant has 8 inspections on record going back to August 18, 2022, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 11, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| September 2, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 11, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| August 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| March 12, 2024 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| November 17, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| January 3, 2023 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| August 18, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
El Ranchon Mexican Restaurant vs Magnolia
Magnolia runs 90% clean across 21 tracked restaurants — 19 clean, 2 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 21 spots Cooked tracks in Magnolia, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 February 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.