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Flair Taco, Taqueria & Margarita Bar
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score16 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 16, 2026
- address1256 Republican St, Seattle 98109
Is Flair Taco, Taqueria & Margarita Bar clean?
Flair Taco, Taqueria & Margarita Bar is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 16, 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 Flair Taco, Taqueria & Margarita Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Flair Taco, Taqueria & Margarita Bar last inspected?
Flair Taco, Taqueria & Margarita Bar has 7 inspections on record going back to May 14, 2024, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 16, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 16 pts |
| June 9, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 15, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 21, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| February 28, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 12, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| May 14, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Flair Taco, Taqueria & Margarita Bar vs Cascade
Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 273 clean, 38 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 June 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.