Taqueria El Rinconsito

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 9, 2026 →
• address15101 Ambaum Blvd Sw, Burien 98166

Is Taqueria El Rinconsito clean?

Taqueria El Rinconsito is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 9, 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?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 9, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Taqueria El Rinconsito last inspected?

Taqueria El Rinconsito has 8 inspections on record going back to December 10, 2021, averaging 11 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Taqueria El Rinconsito vs Burien

Burien runs 88% clean across 262 tracked restaurants — 231 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 262 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 September 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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