Cooked?El Rey Peruvian Restaurant Seattle
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The current published rating reads clean. Keep its inspection date in view.
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score32 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedSeptember 17, 2026 →
- address8515 14Th Ave S, Seattle 98108
Is El Rey Peruvian Restaurant Seattle clean?
El Rey Peruvian Restaurant Seattle is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 17, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Rey Peruvian Restaurant Seattle?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
- ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
When was El Rey Peruvian Restaurant Seattle last inspected?
El Rey Peruvian Restaurant Seattle has 4 inspections on record going back to September 16, 2024, averaging 22 points.
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September 17, 2026 Good
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View full inspection →February 17, 2026 Good
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View full inspection →March 11, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →September 16, 2024 Good
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View full inspection →El Rey Peruvian Restaurant Seattle vs White Center
White Center runs 83% clean across 236 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 35 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 236 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 September 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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