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 reused
  4300 - 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.

El Paisano Tamales vs Federal Way

Federal Way runs 93% clean across 487 tracked restaurants — 455 clean, 30 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 487 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 June 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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