La Herradura Restaurant

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score103 pts
• critical violations7
• last inspectedSeptember 1, 2026 →
• address7300 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118

Is La Herradura Restaurant clean?

La Herradura Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 1, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 7 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at La Herradura Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• 🍽️dishwashing setup off
  4500 - Sewage, wastewater properly disposed
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical
  1600 - Proper cooling procedure
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical
• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical

When was La Herradura Restaurant last inspected?

La Herradura Restaurant has 6 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2024, averaging 26 points.

La Herradura Restaurant vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 79% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 46 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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