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Ezell's Famous Chicken
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 1, 2026
- address1645 140Th Ave Ne, Bellevue 98005
Is Ezell's Famous Chicken clean?
Ezell's Famous Chicken is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 1, 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 Ezell's Famous Chicken?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Ezell's Famous Chicken last inspected?
Ezell's Famous Chicken has 8 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| October 31, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 4, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 22, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 8, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 27, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 6, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 9, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Ezell's Famous Chicken vs Bellevue
Bellevue runs 85% clean across 651 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 651 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 25% 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 July 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.