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Tacos El Tajin
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 31, 2026
- address400 1St Ave N, Algona 98001
Is Tacos El Tajin clean?
Tacos El Tajin is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 31, 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 Tacos El Tajin?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Tacos El Tajin last inspected?
Tacos El Tajin has 6 inspections on record going back to July 8, 2022, averaging 4 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| May 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| October 27, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| May 3, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 5, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| July 8, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Tacos El Tajin vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 210 clean, 10 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 March 31, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.