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La Chata
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 22, 2025
- address27115 185Th St Se, Covington 98042
Is La Chata clean?
La Chata is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 22, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Chata?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))
When was La Chata last inspected?
La Chata has 8 inspections on record going back to April 1, 2021, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 22, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| March 10, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| November 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| December 12, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 28, 2023 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| February 16, 2022 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| April 1, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
La Chata vs Covington
Covington runs 85% clean across 175 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 175 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 September 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.