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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 food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 20, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 4, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 5, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 6, 2024 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| May 25, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| February 23, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 28, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 23, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| August 16, 2021 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Rainier Valero 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 19% of them.
Other spots in Rainier Valley
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 February 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.