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Taqueria El Ranchero @ 520 12Th Ave S
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 24, 2025
- address7300 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Taqueria El Ranchero @ 520 12Th Ave S clean?
Taqueria El Ranchero @ 520 12Th Ave S is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 24, 2025. 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 Ranchero @ 520 12Th Ave S?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
When was Taqueria El Ranchero @ 520 12Th Ave S last inspected?
Taqueria El Ranchero @ 520 12Th Ave S has 10 inspections on record going back to July 7, 2021, averaging 16 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 24, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 16, 2025 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| August 7, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| April 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 19, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| January 20, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| July 2, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| February 9, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 3, 2022 | Rated Good | 80 pts |
| July 7, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Taqueria El Ranchero @ 520 12Th Ave S vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.