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.

• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical
• ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used

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.

Taqueria El Taco Maestro vs Renton

Renton runs 91% clean across 478 tracked restaurants — 434 clean, 41 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 478 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 March 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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