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Jewel Box Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 11, 2026
- address321 Ne Thornton Pl, Seattle 98125
Is Jewel Box Cafe clean?
Jewel Box Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 11, 2026. 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 Jewel Box Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Jewel Box Cafe last inspected?
Jewel Box Cafe has 9 inspections on record going back to April 14, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 11, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| September 12, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 22, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 26, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 23, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| September 26, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 8, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 48 pts |
| January 31, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 14, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Jewel Box Cafe vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 February 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.