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Delish Ethiopian Cuisine
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 2, 2026
- address5701 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Delish Ethiopian Cuisine clean?
Delish Ethiopian Cuisine is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 2, 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 Delish Ethiopian Cuisine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
When was Delish Ethiopian Cuisine last inspected?
Delish Ethiopian Cuisine has 9 inspections on record going back to August 18, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 2, 2026 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| January 12, 2026 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 22, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| August 8, 2024 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| March 7, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 21, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| August 20, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 14, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| August 18, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Delish Ethiopian Cuisine vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.