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Taqueria El Semental
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score18 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJuly 3, 2025
- address9600 16Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98106
Is Taqueria El Semental clean?
Taqueria El Semental is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 3, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Taqueria El Semental?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Taqueria El Semental last inspected?
Taqueria El Semental has 2 inspections on record going back to October 29, 2024, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 3, 2025 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| October 29, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Taqueria El Semental vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.