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Taqueria El Taco Maestro
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score38 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 23, 2026
- address3172 Ne Sunset Blvd, Renton 98056
Is Taqueria El Taco Maestro clean?
Taqueria El Taco Maestro is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 23, 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 Taco Maestro?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Taqueria El Taco Maestro last inspected?
Taqueria El Taco Maestro has 7 inspections on record going back to April 14, 2021, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 23, 2026 | Rated Good | 38 pts |
| March 6, 2026 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 21, 2025 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| April 5, 2024 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| October 2, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| August 9, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 14, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Taqueria El Taco Maestro vs Renton
Renton runs 91% clean across 475 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 42 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 475 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 March 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.