Rainier Restaurant

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score47 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJuly 24, 2026 →
• address6400 M L King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118

Is Rainier Restaurant clean?

Rainier Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 24, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Rainier Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fishcritical
• 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical
  1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration

When was Rainier Restaurant last inspected?

Rainier Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to May 20, 2025, averaging 26 points.

Rainier Restaurant vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 79% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 46 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 July 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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