Taqueria El Sabor

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 19, 2026 →
• address415 Central Ave N, Kent 98032

Is Taqueria El Sabor clean?

Taqueria El Sabor is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 19, 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 October 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Taqueria El Sabor last inspected?

Taqueria El Sabor has 10 inspections on record going back to April 26, 2021, averaging 7 points.

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

Taqueria El Sabor vs Kent

Kent runs 76% clean across 375 tracked restaurants — 285 clean, 87 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 375 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 27% 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 October 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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