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Main Kitchen (213)
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 6, 2026
- address1250 1St Ave S, Seattle 98134
Is Main Kitchen (213) clean?
Main Kitchen (213) is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 6, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Main Kitchen (213)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Main Kitchen (213) last inspected?
Main Kitchen (213) has 13 inspections on record going back to May 14, 2021, averaging 13 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| April 1, 2026 | Rated Okay | 17 pts |
| March 26, 2026 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| June 18, 2025 | Rated Okay | 35 pts |
| May 14, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| May 11, 2025 | Rated Okay | 50 pts |
| September 29, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| April 17, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| July 11, 2023 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| May 6, 2023 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| October 15, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| July 2, 2022 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
Main Kitchen (213) vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 May 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.