Taco Del Mar

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score20 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedFebruary 5, 2026
• address11016 8Th Ave Ne, Seattle 98125

Is Taco Del Mar clean?

Taco Del Mar is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 5, 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 Taco Del Mar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Taco Del Mar last inspected?

Taco Del Mar has 2 inspections on record going back to September 11, 2025, averaging 10 points.

Taco Del Mar vs Northgate

Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.