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La Huerta International Market
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score45 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedMarch 10, 2026
- address405 E Smith St, Kent 98030
Is La Huerta International Market clean?
La Huerta International Market is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 10, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at La Huerta International Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 10, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️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
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical1600 - Proper cooling procedure
When was La Huerta International Market last inspected?
La Huerta International Market has 11 inspections on record going back to July 26, 2021, averaging 31 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 10, 2026 | Rated Okay | 45 pts |
| February 3, 2026 | Rated Okay | 70 pts |
| December 18, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| May 16, 2025 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| April 25, 2025 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| December 2, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| April 9, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| October 26, 2023 | Rated Okay | 43 pts |
| November 23, 2022 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| January 28, 2022 | Rated Okay | 33 pts |
| July 26, 2021 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
La Huerta International Market vs Kent
Kent runs 78% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 74 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 360 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.
Other spots in Kent
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 March 10, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.