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Taco Time
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score3 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 17, 2026
- address5 14Th St Ne, Auburn 98002
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 use3600 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 17, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| January 16, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 8, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 15, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 20, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| May 2, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| December 11, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 27, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 28, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 24, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 24, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 16, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
Taco Time vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 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.
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.