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El Recreo Mexican Food
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score33 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 22, 2026
- address2801 Ne Sunset Blvd, A, Renton 98056
Is El Recreo Mexican Food clean?
El Recreo Mexican Food is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 22, 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 Recreo Mexican Food?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical0400 - Hands washed as required
When was El Recreo Mexican Food last inspected?
El Recreo Mexican Food has 7 inspections on record going back to March 1, 2021, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 22, 2026 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| May 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 9, 2024 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| November 8, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| April 19, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 25, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 1, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
El Recreo Mexican Food vs Renton
Renton runs 92% clean across 475 tracked restaurants — 365 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 475 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 April 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.