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Taqueria El Rinconsito Bellevue
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 22, 2026
- address2255 140Th Ave Ne, A, Bellevue 98005
Is Taqueria El Rinconsito Bellevue clean?
Taqueria El Rinconsito Bellevue is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 22, 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 Rinconsito Bellevue?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Taqueria El Rinconsito Bellevue last inspected?
Taqueria El Rinconsito Bellevue has 9 inspections on record going back to June 23, 2021, averaging 19 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 22, 2026 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| February 4, 2026 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 20, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| January 18, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | Rated Good | 43 pts |
| January 31, 2023 | Rated Good | 38 pts |
| September 2, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| June 23, 2021 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
Taqueria El Rinconsito Bellevue vs Bellevue
Bellevue runs 85% clean across 651 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 651 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.