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Madison Kitchen
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 23, 2025
- address4122 E Madison St, Seattle 98112
Is Madison Kitchen clean?
Madison Kitchen is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 23, 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 Madison Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Madison Kitchen last inspected?
Madison Kitchen has 7 inspections on record going back to May 14, 2021, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 23, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 7, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| August 22, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 12 pts |
| January 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| March 10, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 3, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| May 14, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
Madison Kitchen vs Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill runs 92% clean across 62 tracked restaurants — 57 clean, 5 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 62 spots Cooked tracks in Capitol Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 October 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.