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Max's Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 19, 2026
- address2200 5Th Ave, Seattle 98121
Is Max's Cafe clean?
Max's Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 19, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Max's Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible
When was Max's Cafe last inspected?
Max's Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to January 16, 2025, averaging 0 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 16, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Max's Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.