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Taqueria El Rinconsito
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 2, 2026
- address301 N Central Ave, Kent 98032
Is Taqueria El Rinconsito clean?
Taqueria El Rinconsito is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 2, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Taqueria El Rinconsito?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 2, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Taqueria El Rinconsito last inspected?
Taqueria El Rinconsito has 9 inspections on record going back to April 27, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 20, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 26, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 17, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 15, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| January 30, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 6, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 18 pts |
| April 27, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Taqueria El Rinconsito vs Kent
Kent runs 78% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 74 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 360 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 46% 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 May 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.