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Merchants Cafe
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 11, 2026
- address109 Yesler Way, Seattle 98104
Is Merchants Cafe clean?
Merchants Cafe is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 11, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Merchants Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 11, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Merchants Cafe last inspected?
Merchants Cafe has 8 inspections on record going back to April 14, 2021, averaging 26 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 11, 2026 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| September 10, 2025 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| March 12, 2025 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| June 28, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| August 4, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| July 5, 2023 | Rated Okay | 98 pts |
| October 28, 2022 | Rated Okay | 42 pts |
| April 14, 2021 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
Merchants 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 June 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.