Fou Lee Market & Deli

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score55 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 3, 2026 →
• address2050 S Columbian Way, Seattle 98108

Is Fou Lee Market & Deli clean?

Fou Lee Market & Deli is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 3, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Fou Lee Market & Deli?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  0400 - Hands washed as required
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical

When was Fou Lee Market & Deli last inspected?

Fou Lee Market & Deli has 8 inspections on record going back to July 6, 2021, averaging 20 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Fou Lee Market & Deli vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 91% clean across 250 tracked restaurants — 227 clean, 21 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 250 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 September 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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