Earl's On The Ave

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 21, 2026 →
• address4333 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105

Is Earl's On The Ave clean?

Earl's On The Ave is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 21, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Earl's On The Ave?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized

When was Earl's On The Ave last inspected?

Earl's On The Ave has 8 inspections on record going back to April 28, 2021, averaging 12 points.

Earl's On The Ave vs University District

University District runs 88% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 290 clean, 40 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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 May 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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