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Restaurant El Tapatio
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 28, 2025
- address3720 Factoria Blvd Se, Bellevue 98006
Is Restaurant El Tapatio clean?
Restaurant El Tapatio is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 28, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Restaurant El Tapatio?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
When was Restaurant El Tapatio last inspected?
Restaurant El Tapatio has 6 inspections on record going back to September 27, 2022, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| August 30, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 18, 2024 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| June 7, 2023 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| January 27, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| September 27, 2022 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
Restaurant El Tapatio vs Mercer Island
Mercer Island runs 94% clean across 127 tracked restaurants — 119 clean, 7 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 127 spots Cooked tracks in Mercer Island, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 May 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.