Hamlin Market & Deli

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score28 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 14, 2026 →
• address2729 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle 98102

Is Hamlin Market & Deli clean?

Hamlin Market & Deli is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 14, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Hamlin Market & Deli?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3800 - Utensils, equipment, linens properly stored, used, handled
• ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Hamlin Market & Deli last inspected?

Hamlin Market & Deli has 4 inspections on record going back to August 27, 2024, averaging 8 points.

Hamlin Market & Deli vs Cascade

Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 40 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 August 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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