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Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 19, 2026
- address107 Lake St, Kirkland 98033
Is Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina clean?
Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 19, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
When was Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina last inspected?
Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina has 9 inspections on record going back to July 1, 2021, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 19, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 20, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 25, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| May 1, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| December 4, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| January 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 30 pts |
| April 26, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 12, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 55 pts |
| July 1, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina vs Kirkland
Kirkland runs 96% clean across 337 tracked restaurants — 322 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 337 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, this one comes out cleaner than 27% 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 March 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.