La Medusa

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 26, 2026 →
• address4857 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118

Is La Medusa clean?

La Medusa is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 26, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at La Medusa?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was La Medusa last inspected?

La Medusa has 9 inspections on record going back to October 21, 2021, averaging 2 points.

La Medusa vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 92% clean across 243 tracked restaurants — 223 clean, 18 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 243 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 August 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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