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Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 14, 2025
- address2605 E Cherry St, Seattle 98122
Is Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant clean?
Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant last inspected?
Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to January 28, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 14, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 13, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| March 2, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 28, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant vs Central Area
Central Area runs 93% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, 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 October 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.