Lunchroom is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 26, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Lunchroom has 11 inspections on record going back to October 19, 2021, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 26, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| November 21, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| May 7, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 7 pts |
| December 3, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 25 pts |
| February 12, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 30 pts |
| October 30, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 3 pts |
| April 3, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 33 pts |
| December 12, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| November 30, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 43 pts |
| May 19, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| October 19, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 23 pts |
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 19% of them.
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 February 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.