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Santa Fe Mexican Grill
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score33 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedFebruary 18, 2026
- address1170 Sunset Blvd Ne, Renton 98056
Is Santa Fe Mexican Grill clean?
Santa Fe Mexican Grill is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 18, 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 Santa Fe Mexican Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycritical2200 - Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods
- ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holding
When was Santa Fe Mexican Grill last inspected?
Santa Fe Mexican Grill has 10 inspections on record going back to May 17, 2021, averaging 19 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 18, 2026 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| October 8, 2025 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| May 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| December 12, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 13, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 27, 2024 | Rated Good | 45 pts |
| October 13, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| June 15, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| May 12, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| May 17, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Santa Fe Mexican Grill vs Renton
Renton runs 91% clean across 475 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 42 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 475 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 February 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.