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Las Margaritas Iii
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 9, 2026
- address14356 Aurora Ave N, Seattle 98133
Is Las Margaritas Iii clean?
Las Margaritas Iii is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 9, 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 Las Margaritas Iii?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 9, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ⚠️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 Las Margaritas Iii last inspected?
Las Margaritas Iii has 7 inspections on record going back to January 21, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 9, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 24, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 7, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 16, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| December 12, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 21, 2021 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Las Margaritas Iii vs Shoreline
Shoreline runs 90% clean across 214 tracked restaurants — 192 clean, 21 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 214 spots Cooked tracks in Shoreline, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Shoreline
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 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.