• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score30 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 13, 2025 →
• address523 3Rd Ave, Seattle 98104

📸 get the free app — point your camera down a block, grades float over the storefronts

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-connections
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical

When was Drexel Deli & Grocery last inspected?

Drexel Deli & Grocery has 6 inspections on record going back to July 25, 2023, averaging 28 points.

Drexel Deli & Grocery vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,737 tracked restaurants — 1,581 clean, 148 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,737 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

Other spots in Downtown

• EX Starbucks Coffee #301
  clean · April 14, 2026
• EX Ocean Star Restaurant
  clean · June 11, 2026
• EX Wildrose
  clean · January 28, 2026
• EX Sunset Club
  clean · February 26, 2026
• OK Tai Tung Restaurant
  mid · June 11, 2026
• EX Zig Zag Cafe
  clean · May 12, 2026

See every restaurant inspection in Downtown →

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 August 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.