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Taco City Taqueria
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 25, 2025
- address5212 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Taco City Taqueria clean?
Taco City Taqueria is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 25, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Taco City Taqueria?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
When was Taco City Taqueria last inspected?
Taco City Taqueria has 5 inspections on record going back to October 12, 2022, averaging 22 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 25, 2025 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| May 28, 2024 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| January 8, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| August 29, 2023 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| October 12, 2022 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
Taco City Taqueria vs Seward Park
Seward Park runs 91% clean across 33 tracked restaurants — 30 clean, 3 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 33 spots Cooked tracks in Seward Park, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
Other spots in Seward Park
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 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.