Taco Del Mar

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 15, 2026 →
• address8004 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle 98103

Is Taco Del Mar clean?

Taco Del Mar is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 15, 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 Del Mar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Taco Del Mar last inspected?

Taco Del Mar has 10 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2021, averaging 5 points.

Taco Del Mar vs Northgate

Northgate runs 94% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 311 clean, 20 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 18% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 January 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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