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La Malinche Market Inc.
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score27 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 22, 2026
- address1301 W Meeker St, 115, Kent 98032
Is La Malinche Market Inc. clean?
La Malinche Market Inc. is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 22, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at La Malinche Market Inc.?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
When was La Malinche Market Inc. last inspected?
La Malinche Market Inc. has 2 inspections on record going back to December 30, 2025, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 22, 2026 | Rated Okay | 27 pts |
| December 30, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
La Malinche Market Inc. vs Kent
Kent runs 78% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 74 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 360 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.