La Palmera #3

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score20 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 12, 2026 →
• address901 Mercer St, Seattle 98109

Is La Palmera #3 clean?

La Palmera #3 is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 12, 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 Palmera #3?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was La Palmera #3 last inspected?

La Palmera #3 has 11 inspections on record going back to May 5, 2021, averaging 8 points.

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 August 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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