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Taqueria El Rinconsito
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 22, 2026
- address2101 Auburn Way N, Auburn 98002
Is Taqueria El Rinconsito clean?
Taqueria El Rinconsito is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 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?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycritical2200 - Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods
When was Taqueria El Rinconsito last inspected?
Taqueria El Rinconsito has 8 inspections on record going back to July 22, 2021, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 22, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| January 13, 2026 | Rated Good | 3 pts |
| May 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| April 24, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| May 1, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| September 16, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 10, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| July 22, 2021 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Taqueria El Rinconsito vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 July 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.