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East African Grocery & Deli Llc
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJune 9, 2025
- address7135 M L King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118
Is East African Grocery & Deli Llc clean?
East African Grocery & Deli Llc is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 9, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at East African Grocery & Deli Llc?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was East African Grocery & Deli Llc last inspected?
East African Grocery & Deli Llc has 11 inspections on record going back to July 12, 2021, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 9, 2025 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| February 10, 2025 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| September 24, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| September 17, 2024 | Rated Okay | 60 pts |
| April 30, 2024 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| January 4, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| December 26, 2023 | Rated Okay | 80 pts |
| August 28, 2023 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| June 10, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| February 2, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| July 12, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
East African Grocery & Deli Llc 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 13% 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 June 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.