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 cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  0200 - 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.

Taco Time vs Des Moines

Des Moines runs 90% clean across 165 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 165 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 April 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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