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Taqueria El Gallo
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 27, 2026
- address16720 Redmond Way, A, Redmond 98052
Is Taqueria El Gallo clean?
Taqueria El Gallo is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 27, 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 Taqueria El Gallo?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Taqueria El Gallo last inspected?
Taqueria El Gallo has 8 inspections on record going back to February 18, 2022, averaging 19 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 27, 2026 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 10, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| February 21, 2025 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| April 4, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 13, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| June 8, 2023 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| October 14, 2022 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| February 18, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Taqueria El Gallo vs Redmond
Redmond runs 90% clean across 489 tracked restaurants — 441 clean, 46 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 489 spots Cooked tracks in Redmond, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 January 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.