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.

Alem Restaurant vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 92% clean across 243 tracked restaurants — 223 clean, 18 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 243 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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