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Meat The Live Butcher
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 31, 2026
- address9432 16Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98106
Is Meat The Live Butcher clean?
Meat The Live Butcher is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 31, 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 Meat The Live Butcher?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Meat The Live Butcher last inspected?
Meat The Live Butcher has 8 inspections on record going back to July 29, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| September 24, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 31, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| September 17, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 4, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| March 1, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 16, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| July 29, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Meat The Live Butcher vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, 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 March 31, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.