Alem Restaurant

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 7, 2026 →
• address4423 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118

Is Alem Restaurant clean?

Alem Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Alem Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 7, 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
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled

When was Alem Restaurant last inspected?

Alem Restaurant has 11 inspections on record going back to January 27, 2022, averaging 10 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Alem Restaurant vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 91% clean across 250 tracked restaurants — 227 clean, 21 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 250 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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