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Taqueria El 5 De Mayo (Kc887)@1133 West James Stre
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 21, 2025
- address10050 15Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98146
Is Taqueria El 5 De Mayo (Kc887)@1133 West James Stre clean?
Taqueria El 5 De Mayo (Kc887)@1133 West James Stre is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 21, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Taqueria El 5 De Mayo (Kc887)@1133 West James Stre?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- ⚠️0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetablescritical0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetables
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Taqueria El 5 De Mayo (Kc887)@1133 West James Stre last inspected?
Taqueria El 5 De Mayo (Kc887)@1133 West James Stre has 4 inspections on record going back to March 26, 2024, averaging 18 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 21, 2025 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| January 13, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| December 30, 2024 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| March 26, 2024 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
Taqueria El 5 De Mayo (Kc887)@1133 West James Stre vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 April 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.