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Matador West
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 5, 2026
- address4546 California Ave Sw, Seattle 98116
Is Matador West clean?
Matador West is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 5, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Matador West?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
When was Matador West last inspected?
Matador West has 8 inspections on record going back to February 2, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 5, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| July 10, 2024 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| November 13, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 20, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| October 4, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 17, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 2, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Matador West vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 May 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.