Tacos Al Vapor El Sabas

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 22, 2025
• address1636 S 312Th St, Federal Way 98003

Is Tacos Al Vapor El Sabas clean?

Tacos Al Vapor El Sabas is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 22, 2025. 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 Tacos Al Vapor El Sabas?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🧊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 Tacos Al Vapor El Sabas last inspected?

Tacos Al Vapor El Sabas has 1 inspection on record going back to May 22, 2025, averaging 10 points.

Tacos Al Vapor El Sabas vs Federal Way

Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 371 clean, 22 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 May 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.