Gretchen's Place is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 19, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Gretchen's Place has 8 inspections on record going back to October 18, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| September 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 19, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 28, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| March 22, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| June 15, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 5, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| October 18, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Northeast runs 90% clean across 60 tracked restaurants β 54 clean, 5 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 60 spots Cooked tracks in Northeast, this one comes out cleaner than 25% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.