Cheeky Cafe

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score22 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 16, 2026 →
• address1700 S Jackson St, Seattle 98144

Is Cheeky Cafe clean?

Cheeky Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 16, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cheeky Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycritical
  2200 - Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods

When was Cheeky Cafe last inspected?

Cheeky Cafe has 10 inspections on record going back to September 7, 2021, averaging 5 points.

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

Cheeky Cafe vs Central Area

Central Area runs 90% clean across 198 tracked restaurants — 179 clean, 19 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 198 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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