Metropolitan Deli

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score20 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 20, 2026 →
• address1801 Boren Ave, 120, Seattle 98101

Is Metropolitan Deli clean?

Metropolitan Deli is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 20, 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 Metropolitan Deli?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria

When was Metropolitan Deli last inspected?

Metropolitan Deli has 9 inspections on record going back to May 5, 2022, averaging 13 points.

Metropolitan Deli vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,737 tracked restaurants — 1,581 clean, 148 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,737 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 August 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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