Meat Department is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 19, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on February 19, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
Meat Department has 4 inspections on record going back to December 12, 2024, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 19, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 9, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 10, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| December 12, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants β 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 31% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.