Taqueria La Mexicana @ 2150 Northgate Way

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 18, 2025
• address314 Broadway E, Seattle 98102

Is Taqueria La Mexicana @ 2150 Northgate Way clean?

Taqueria La Mexicana @ 2150 Northgate Way is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 18, 2025. 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 La Mexicana @ 2150 Northgate Way?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical
  1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Taqueria La Mexicana @ 2150 Northgate Way last inspected?

Taqueria La Mexicana @ 2150 Northgate Way has 2 inspections on record going back to February 12, 2025, averaging 5 points.

Taqueria La Mexicana @ 2150 Northgate Way vs Cascade

Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 273 clean, 38 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 December 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.