Masa Mexican Kitchen & Cantina

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score42 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 16, 2025 →
• address317 Nw Gilman Blvd, 31A, Issaquah 98027

Is Masa Mexican Kitchen & Cantina clean?

Masa Mexican Kitchen & Cantina is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 16, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Masa Mexican Kitchen & Cantina?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• 🚰handwashing sink issuescritical
  0500 - Proper barriers used to prevent bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods

When was Masa Mexican Kitchen & Cantina last inspected?

Masa Mexican Kitchen & Cantina has 6 inspections on record going back to May 13, 2021, averaging 12 points.

Masa Mexican Kitchen & Cantina vs Issaquah

Issaquah runs 94% clean across 244 tracked restaurants — 230 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 244 spots Cooked tracks in Issaquah, 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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