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Media Dining (Pen)
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 3, 2026
- address1250 1St Ave S, Seattle 98134
Is Media Dining (Pen) clean?
Media Dining (Pen) is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 3, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Media Dining (Pen)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
When was Media Dining (Pen) last inspected?
Media Dining (Pen) has 10 inspections on record going back to July 8, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 3, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| April 1, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 2, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| September 19, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 15, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 29, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 6, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| July 10, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 8, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Media Dining (Pen) vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 June 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.