Rainier Valero

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 20, 2026 →
• address7301 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118

Is Rainier Valero clean?

Rainier Valero is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 20, 2026. 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 Valero?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Rainier Valero last inspected?

Rainier Valero has 9 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2021, averaging 8 points.

Rainier Valero 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 22% of them.

Other spots in Rainier Valley

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• EX Just Like Home Caribbean Market Llc
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• OK East African Grocery & Deli Llc
  mid · June 9, 2025
• ⏳ Lunchroom
  clean · May 5, 2026
• EX Mcdonald's, #4891
  clean · February 20, 2026

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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 February 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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