Brief Encounter

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score30 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 22, 2026 →
• address2632 Bellevue Way, Bellevue 98004

Is Brief Encounter clean?

Brief Encounter is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 22, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. 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 September 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
• ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical

When was Brief Encounter last inspected?

Brief Encounter has 6 inspections on record going back to December 23, 2021, averaging 11 points.

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

Brief Encounter vs Bellevue

Bellevue runs 85% clean across 662 tracked restaurants — 565 clean, 93 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 662 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 September 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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