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Santa Fe Mexican Grill
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 17, 2026
- address12709 Ne 124Th St, Kirkland 98034
Is Santa Fe Mexican Grill clean?
Santa Fe Mexican Grill is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 17, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Santa Fe Mexican Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Santa Fe Mexican Grill last inspected?
Santa Fe Mexican Grill has 9 inspections on record going back to November 18, 2021, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 17, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| October 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| January 21, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 5, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| October 12, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 38 pts |
| November 28, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| April 19, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 28, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 40 pts |
| November 18, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Santa Fe Mexican Grill 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 9% 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 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.