Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score9 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 17, 2026 →
• 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 September 17, 2026. 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 September 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment

When was Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant last inspected?

Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant has 6 inspections on record going back to January 28, 2021, averaging 8 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant vs Central Area

Central Area runs 90% clean across 198 tracked restaurants — 179 clean, 19 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 198 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 31% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated September 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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