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Matador Restaurant
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score3 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 12, 2026
- address7824 Leary Way, Redmond 98052
Is Matador Restaurant clean?
Matador Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 12, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Matador Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️food left unprotected3500 - Employee cleanliness and hygiene
When was Matador Restaurant last inspected?
Matador Restaurant has 8 inspections on record going back to February 9, 2022, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 12, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| May 12, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 2, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| March 13, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| November 9, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 23, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 14, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| February 9, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Matador Restaurant vs Redmond
Redmond runs 90% clean across 489 tracked restaurants — 441 clean, 46 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 489 spots Cooked tracks in Redmond, this one comes out cleaner than 45% 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 January 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.