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Mamma Melina
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score18 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 19, 2026
- address5101 25Th Ave Ne, #2-3, Seattle 98105
Is Mamma Melina clean?
Mamma Melina is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 19, 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 Mamma Melina?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Mamma Melina last inspected?
Mamma Melina has 5 inspections on record going back to January 4, 2022, averaging 16 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 19, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 18 pts |
| June 26, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| July 26, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| January 5, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| January 4, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Mamma Melina vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 March 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.