Cooked?Rocket Taco
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJuly 27, 2026 →
- address550 19Th Ave E, Seattle 98112
Is Rocket Taco clean?
Rocket Taco is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 27, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Rocket Taco?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 27, 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
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Rocket Taco last inspected?
Rocket Taco has 3 inspections on record going back to January 14, 2025, averaging 22 points.
July 27, 2026 Good
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View full inspection →January 14, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →Rocket Taco vs Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill runs 89% clean across 64 tracked restaurants — 56 clean, 6 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 64 spots Cooked tracks in Capitol Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 July 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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