Taco Cortes@835 S Henderson St

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 19, 2026 →
• address10836 E Marginal Way S, Tukwila 98168

Is Taco Cortes@835 S Henderson St clean?

Taco Cortes@835 S Henderson St is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 19, 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 Taco Cortes@835 S Henderson St?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Taco Cortes@835 S Henderson St last inspected?

Taco Cortes@835 S Henderson St has 4 inspections on record going back to April 20, 2024, averaging 6 points.

Taco Cortes@835 S Henderson St vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 79% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 46 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 37% 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 August 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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