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Taco Time
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 9, 2026
- address809 Kent Des Moines Rd, Seattle 98198
Is Taco Time clean?
Taco Time is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 9, 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 Time?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 9, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
When was Taco Time last inspected?
Taco Time has 7 inspections on record going back to October 6, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 9, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| October 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| January 22, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 29, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 25, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| October 6, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Taco Time vs Des Moines
Des Moines runs 90% clean across 164 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 164 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 April 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.