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Harissa Mediterranean Cuisine
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 17, 2025
- address2255 Ne 65Th St, Seattle 98115
Is Harissa Mediterranean Cuisine clean?
Harissa Mediterranean Cuisine is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 17, 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 Harissa Mediterranean Cuisine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Harissa Mediterranean Cuisine last inspected?
Harissa Mediterranean Cuisine has 6 inspections on record going back to October 27, 2021, averaging 23 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 17, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| July 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| July 20, 2023 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| August 9, 2022 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| November 9, 2021 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| October 27, 2021 | Rated Good | 58 pts |
Harissa Mediterranean Cuisine vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 June 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.