• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score3 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 17, 2026 →
• address5 14Th St Ne, Auburn 98002

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Is Taco Time clean?

Taco Time is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 17, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. 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 July 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3600 - Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use

When was Taco Time last inspected?

Taco Time has 12 inspections on record going back to April 16, 2021, averaging 2 points.

Taco Time vs Auburn

Auburn runs 95% clean across 314 tracked restaurants — 298 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 314 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 July 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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