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Marination (Pen)
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 3, 2026
- address1250 1St Ave S, Seattle 98134
Is Marination (Pen) clean?
Marination (Pen) is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 3, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Marination (Pen)?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 3, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Marination (Pen) last inspected?
Marination (Pen) has 15 inspections on record going back to May 14, 2021, averaging 12 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 3, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 1, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 26, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
| June 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| September 19, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 15, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 35 pts |
| April 17, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 3, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 35 pts |
| August 29, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 35 pts |
| July 11, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| May 6, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
Marination (Pen) 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 32% 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 June 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.