Tacos El Encanto @ 18005 15Th Ave Ne Shoreline 981

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score58 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJune 17, 2025
• address31248 Pacific Hwy S, #B, Federal Way 98003

Is Tacos El Encanto @ 18005 15Th Ave Ne Shoreline 981 clean?

Tacos El Encanto @ 18005 15Th Ave Ne Shoreline 981 is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 17, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Tacos El Encanto @ 18005 15Th Ave Ne Shoreline 981?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️food left unprotected
  3500 - Employee cleanliness and hygiene
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
  4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• 🍽️dishwashing setup off
  4500 - Sewage, wastewater properly disposed
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
  2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
• 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical
  1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available

When was Tacos El Encanto @ 18005 15Th Ave Ne Shoreline 981 last inspected?

Tacos El Encanto @ 18005 15Th Ave Ne Shoreline 981 has 2 inspections on record going back to December 16, 2022, averaging 49 points.

Tacos El Encanto @ 18005 15Th Ave Ne Shoreline 981 vs Federal Way

Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 453 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 June 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.