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Mendozas Mexican Mercado
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 1, 2026
- address7811 Aurora Ave N, Seattle 98103
Is Mendozas Mexican Mercado clean?
Mendozas Mexican Mercado is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 1, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Mendozas Mexican Mercado?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 1, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Mendozas Mexican Mercado last inspected?
Mendozas Mexican Mercado has 6 inspections on record going back to January 4, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 1, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 3, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 12, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 1, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 3, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 4, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Mendozas Mexican Mercado vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 31% 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 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.