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Lil Red's Takeout & Catering
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 2, 2026
- address4225 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Lil Red's Takeout & Catering clean?
Lil Red's Takeout & Catering is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 2, 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 Lil Red's Takeout & Catering?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Lil Red's Takeout & Catering last inspected?
Lil Red's Takeout & Catering has 11 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2021, averaging 16 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 2, 2026 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| October 3, 2025 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| March 27, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 20, 2025 | Rated Okay | 65 pts |
| July 5, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| February 8, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| September 28, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| April 13, 2023 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| April 15, 2022 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| January 5, 2022 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| May 6, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Lil Red's Takeout & Catering vs Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill runs 93% clean across 240 tracked restaurants — 222 clean, 16 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 240 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 July 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.