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Mama Chavez's Tamales & More
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score45 pts
- critical violations5
- last inspectedApril 30, 2026
- address2219 2Nd Ave, B, Seattle 98121
Is Mama Chavez's Tamales & More clean?
Mama Chavez's Tamales & More is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 30, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Mama Chavez's Tamales & More?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
- ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holding
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
- ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycritical2200 - Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods
When was Mama Chavez's Tamales & More last inspected?
Mama Chavez's Tamales & More has 2 inspections on record going back to January 19, 2024, averaging 23 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 30, 2026 | Rated Okay | 45 pts |
| January 19, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Mama Chavez's Tamales & More vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 April 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.