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Falafel Salam (Kc776)
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 13, 2025
- address4746 California Ave Sw, Seattle 98116
Is Falafel Salam (Kc776) clean?
Falafel Salam (Kc776) is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 13, 2025. 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 Falafel Salam (Kc776)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Falafel Salam (Kc776) last inspected?
Falafel Salam (Kc776) has 5 inspections on record going back to October 27, 2021, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 13, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 23, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 17, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 7, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
| October 27, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Falafel Salam (Kc776) vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 November 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.