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Drexel Deli & Grocery
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 13, 2025
- address523 3Rd Ave, Seattle 98104
Is Drexel Deli & Grocery clean?
Drexel Deli & Grocery is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 13, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Drexel Deli & Grocery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Drexel Deli & Grocery last inspected?
Drexel Deli & Grocery has 6 inspections on record going back to July 25, 2023, averaging 28 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 13, 2025 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| January 23, 2025 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| November 5, 2024 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| June 14, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| May 3, 2024 | Rated Okay | 35 pts |
| July 25, 2023 | Rated Okay | 33 pts |
Drexel Deli & Grocery vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, 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.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.