Taqueria El Sabor

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 2, 2026 →
• address415 Central Ave N, Kent 98032

Is Taqueria El Sabor clean?

Taqueria El Sabor is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 2, 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 May 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used

When was Taqueria El Sabor last inspected?

Taqueria El Sabor has 9 inspections on record going back to April 26, 2021, averaging 7 points.

Taqueria El Sabor vs Kent

Kent runs 78% clean across 365 tracked restaurants — 283 clean, 77 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 365 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 May 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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