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Brief Encounter
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 7, 2025
- address2632 Bellevue Way, Bellevue 98004
Is Brief Encounter clean?
Brief Encounter is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Brief Encounter?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was Brief Encounter last inspected?
Brief Encounter has 5 inspections on record going back to December 23, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 7, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 22, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 30, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 2, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| December 23, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Brief Encounter vs Bellevue
Bellevue runs 85% clean across 651 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 651 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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.
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 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.