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Tacos El Viejon
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 26, 2026
- address14130 Juanita Dr Ne, Kirkland 98034
Is Tacos El Viejon clean?
Tacos El Viejon is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 26, 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 Viejon?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 26, 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 Viejon last inspected?
Tacos El Viejon has 3 inspections on record going back to May 28, 2024, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 26, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 13, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 28, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Tacos El Viejon vs Kenmore
Kenmore runs 91% clean across 99 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 8 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 99 spots Cooked tracks in Kenmore, this one comes out cleaner than 31% of them.
Other spots in Kenmore
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 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.