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Cafe Selam
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 12, 2026
- address2715 E Cherry St, #B, Seattle 98122
Is Cafe Selam clean?
Cafe Selam is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 12, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Selam?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Cafe Selam last inspected?
Cafe Selam has 13 inspections on record going back to February 3, 2021, averaging 18 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 12, 2026 | Rated Good | 12 pts |
| December 23, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 19, 2025 | Rated Good | 27 pts |
| January 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 9 pts |
| June 3, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| February 6, 2024 | Rated Good | 40 pts |
| December 4, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 20, 2023 | Rated Good | 45 pts |
| June 12, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| December 8, 2022 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| February 2, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| February 8, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Cafe Selam vs Central Area
Central Area runs 93% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 13% of them.
Other spots in Central Area
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 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.