Cooked?Seattle restaurant health inspection closures and reopenings — October 12, 2026
Seattle restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-10-11: 2 shutdowns, 4 reopenings. Official Public Health — Seattle & King County records.
How to read this brief
2 shutdowns · 4 reopenings
These are meaningful inspection records Cooked first received between October 5, 2026 and October 11, 2026. The authority may have performed an inspection earlier and published it later, so every restaurant below carries the inspection’s actual date.
An inspection is a dated official record, not a guarantee about every meal before or after it.
Shut by the authority 🚫
Express Burrito Inc Kc1000
8515 14Th Ave S · Seattle 98108 · White Center
Needs To Improve → closed by the health authority (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures critical
- •3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- •5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible
Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant
5500 8Th Ave Nw · Seattle 98107 · Ballard
Needs To Improve → closed by the health authority (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated October 2, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
4 critical violations · 4 total
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt critical
- ⚠️1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated critical
- ⚠️1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available critical
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures critical
Reopened after closure 🔓
Taqueria El Shaddai Llc(Kc720)
3427 Rainier Ave S · Seattle 98144 · Beacon Hill
closed → Needs To Improve (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated October 8, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 0 total
Express Burrito Inc Kc1000
8515 14Th Ave S · Seattle 98108 · White Center
closed → Needs To Improve (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated October 8, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 0 total
Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant
5500 8Th Ave Nw · Seattle 98107 · Ballard
closed → Needs To Improve (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 0 total
Benjarong Thai
17017 Se 270Th Pl · Covington 98042 · Covington
closed → Needs To Improve (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated October 2, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 0 total
Neighborhood and local-area movement 🗺️
These are places with at least two qualifying changes in the reporting period—not a claim that every restaurant in the area moved the same way.
White Center
2 changes: 1 setback and 1 improvement
1 closure · 0 downgrades · 1 reopening · 0 recoveries
How Seattle’s rating works
clean = Excellent/Good, mid = Okay, cooked = Needs To Improve — King County’s placard ratings.
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.
Corrections and updates
No corrections recorded. The facts above are the frozen publication snapshot; restaurant links show the current record.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County. Cooked preserves the authority’s grade and adds clean / mid / cooked only as a comparison layer. Read the methodology → · Browse explainers and stories →