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.

• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycritical
  2200 - Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods
• ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical

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.

Santa Fe Mexican Grill vs Renton

Renton runs 91% clean across 478 tracked restaurants — 434 clean, 41 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 478 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.

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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 February 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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