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Massawa Eritrian & Ethiopian Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 9, 2026
- address4411 S Mead St S, Seattle 98118
Is Massawa Eritrian & Ethiopian Restaurant clean?
Massawa Eritrian & Ethiopian Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 9, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Massawa Eritrian & Ethiopian Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 9, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was Massawa Eritrian & Ethiopian Restaurant last inspected?
Massawa Eritrian & Ethiopian Restaurant has 12 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2021, averaging 24 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 9, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 14, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| August 8, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| March 7, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 1, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| October 16, 2023 | Rated Good | 75 pts |
| May 3, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 19, 2023 | Rated Good | 80 pts |
| April 7, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| January 27, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 11, 2022 | Rated Good | 60 pts |
| May 6, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Massawa Eritrian & Ethiopian Restaurant vs Rainier Valley
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 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 July 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.