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El Paisano Tamales
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score3 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 16, 2026
- address2012 S 320Th St, F, Federal Way 98003
Is El Paisano Tamales clean?
El Paisano Tamales is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 16, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Paisano Tamales?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
When was El Paisano Tamales last inspected?
El Paisano Tamales has 13 inspections on record going back to July 25, 2022, averaging 4 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 16, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| March 9, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 21, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 6, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 21, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 37 pts |
| February 4, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 23, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 13, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| July 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 2, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 7, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
El Paisano Tamales 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 27% 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 June 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.