Cooked?Seattle restaurant health inspection closures, downgrade, reopening and recovery — October 5, 2026
Seattle restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-10-04: 4 shutdowns, 1 reopening, 1 downgrade, 1 recovery. Official Public Health — Seattle & King County records.
How to read this brief
4 shutdowns · 1 downgrade · 1 reopening · 1 recovery
These are meaningful inspection records Cooked first received between September 28, 2026 and October 4, 2026. The authority may have performed an inspection earlier and published it later, so every restaurant below carries the inspection’s actual date.
An inspection is a dated official record, not a guarantee about every meal before or after it.
Shut by the authority 🚫
Benjarong Thai
17017 Se 270Th Pl · Covington 98042 · Covington
Needs To Improve → closed by the health authority (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated September 29, 2026
Status when this brief was published: closed by the authority.
7 critical violations · 7 total
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt critical
- ⚠️0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained critical
- ⚠️0400 - Hands washed as required critical
- ⚠️0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities critical
- ⚠️1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated critical
- ⚠️1800 - Proper cooking time and temperature; proper use of noncontinuous cooking critical
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures critical
Jemil's Big Easy
5604 Delridge Way Sw · Seattle 98106 · Delridge
Needs To Improve → closed by the health authority (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated September 25, 2026
Status when this brief was published: closed by the authority.
1 critical violation · 1 total
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures critical
Conc. A - Manchu Wok At Sea-Tac
Sea-Tac Airport, Cona · Sea Tac 98158
Needs To Improve → closed by the health authority (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated September 15, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 2 total
- ⚠️0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities critical
- ⚠️2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C)) critical
Subway #27237
100 4Th Ave N, #120 · Seattle 98109 · Downtown
Needs To Improve → closed by the health authority (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated September 11, 2026
Status when this brief was published: closed by the authority.
4 critical violations · 5 total
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt critical
- ⚠️0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained critical
- ⚠️2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C)) critical
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures critical
- •3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
Ratings moved down 📉
All Water Seafood & Oyster Bar Hotel 1000
1000 1St Ave · Seattle 98104 · Downtown
Good → Okay (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 18, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 2 total
- ⚠️1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria critical
- ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fish critical
Reopened after closure 🔓
Conc. A - Manchu Wok At Sea-Tac
Sea-Tac Airport, Cona · Sea Tac 98158
closed → Needs To Improve (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated September 17, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 0 total
Ratings recovered 📈
Indo Fusion Restaurant And Bar
4719 California Ave Sw · Seattle 98116 · West Seattle
Okay → Good (mid → clean) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 0 total
Neighborhood and local-area movement 🗺️
These are places with at least two qualifying changes in the reporting period—not a claim that every restaurant in the area moved the same way.
Downtown
2 changes: 2 setbacks and 0 improvements
1 closure · 1 downgrade · 0 reopenings · 0 recoveries
Affected chains and same-name locations 📍
Only name groups with at least three operating Seattle locations and a qualifying change this period appear here. Counts describe each group’s current citywide record at publication; shared names do not always prove shared ownership.
Subway
86 clean · 9 mid · 3 cooked across 98 rated locations.
1 qualifying change this period · 98 operating locations tracked
How Seattle’s rating works
clean = Excellent/Good, mid = Okay, cooked = Needs To Improve — King County’s placard ratings.
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.
Corrections and updates
No corrections recorded. The facts above are the frozen publication snapshot; restaurant links show the current record.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County. Cooked preserves the authority’s grade and adds clean / mid / cooked only as a comparison layer. Read the methodology → · Browse explainers and stories →