Choice Deli & Grocery

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score30 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 23, 2026 →
• address6415 8Th Ave Nw, Seattle 98107

Is Choice Deli & Grocery clean?

Choice Deli & Grocery is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 23, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Choice Deli & Grocery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Choice Deli & Grocery last inspected?

Choice Deli & Grocery has 6 inspections on record going back to March 19, 2024, averaging 32 points.

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

Choice Deli & Grocery vs Ballard

Ballard runs 93% clean across 356 tracked restaurants — 331 clean, 24 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 356 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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