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 sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - 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.

Matador West vs West Seattle

West Seattle runs 92% clean across 227 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 227 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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