Cooked?Chennai Express
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Looking clean.
The current published rating reads clean. Keep its inspection date in view.
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 21, 2026 →
- address305 Bell St, Seattle 98121
Is Chennai Express clean?
Chennai Express is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 21, 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 Chennai Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Chennai Express last inspected?
Chennai Express has 3 inspections on record going back to February 25, 2026, averaging 3 points.
Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record
October 21, 2026 Good
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View full inspection →June 9, 2026 Good
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View full inspection →February 25, 2026 Good
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View full inspection →Chennai Express vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,783 tracked restaurants — 1,615 clean, 160 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 1,783 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 October 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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