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Rainier Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 20, 2025
- address6400 M L King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118
Is Rainier Restaurant clean?
Rainier Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 20, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Rainier Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Rainier Restaurant last inspected?
Rainier Restaurant has 1 inspection on record going back to May 20, 2025, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Rainier 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 36% 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 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.