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Carita Market
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 13, 2026
- address31007 Pacific Hwy S, A, Federal Way 98003
Is Carita Market clean?
Carita Market is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 13, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Carita Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 13, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Carita Market last inspected?
Carita Market has 12 inspections on record going back to June 10, 2021, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 27, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 29, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| April 28, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| September 10, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| May 21, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 30 pts |
| August 10, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| January 25, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| May 23, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| January 25, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| November 1, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| June 10, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Carita Market vs Federal Way
Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 453 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 21% of them.
Other spots in Federal Way
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 May 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.