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El Taco Loco Kc980 @ 5715 15Th Ave Nw Seattle Wa 9
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 27, 2026
- address2408 Nw 80Th St, Seattle 98117
Is El Taco Loco Kc980 @ 5715 15Th Ave Nw Seattle Wa 9 clean?
El Taco Loco Kc980 @ 5715 15Th Ave Nw Seattle Wa 9 is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 27, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at El Taco Loco Kc980 @ 5715 15Th Ave Nw Seattle Wa 9?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holding
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
When was El Taco Loco Kc980 @ 5715 15Th Ave Nw Seattle Wa 9 last inspected?
El Taco Loco Kc980 @ 5715 15Th Ave Nw Seattle Wa 9 has 6 inspections on record going back to April 21, 2023, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2026 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| June 3, 2025 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| January 24, 2025 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| April 25, 2024 | Rated Okay | 32 pts |
| January 18, 2024 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| April 21, 2023 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
El Taco Loco Kc980 @ 5715 15Th Ave Nw Seattle Wa 9 vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 May 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.