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Taqueria El Sabor
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 24, 2026
- address15221 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline 98133
Is Taqueria El Sabor clean?
Taqueria El Sabor is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 24, 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 Sabor?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Taqueria El Sabor last inspected?
Taqueria El Sabor has 9 inspections on record going back to May 18, 2021, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 24, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 10, 2025 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| April 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 7, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| June 15, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 19, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| July 12, 2022 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| December 16, 2021 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 18, 2021 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
Taqueria El Sabor vs Shoreline
Shoreline runs 90% clean across 214 tracked restaurants — 192 clean, 21 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 214 spots Cooked tracks in Shoreline, 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 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.