Taqueria El Gallo

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score20 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 11, 2026 →
• address16720 Redmond Way, A, Redmond 98052

Is Taqueria El Gallo clean?

Taqueria El Gallo is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 11, 2026. 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 Gallo?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 11, 2026, 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
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical

When was Taqueria El Gallo last inspected?

Taqueria El Gallo has 9 inspections on record going back to February 18, 2022, averaging 19 points.

Taqueria El Gallo vs Redmond

Redmond runs 89% clean across 499 tracked restaurants — 446 clean, 51 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 499 spots Cooked tracks in Redmond, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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