Puerta Vallarta

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score72 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedAugust 17, 2026 →
• address4727 California Ave Sw, A, Seattle 98116

Is Puerta Vallarta clean?

Puerta Vallarta is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 17, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Puerta Vallarta?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  0400 - Hands washed as required
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Puerta Vallarta last inspected?

Puerta Vallarta has 10 inspections on record going back to October 7, 2021, averaging 22 points.

Puerta Vallarta vs West Seattle

West Seattle runs 92% clean across 227 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 227 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, 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 August 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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