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Metropolitan Deli
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 15, 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 April 15, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. 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 April 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Metropolitan Deli last inspected?
Metropolitan Deli has 8 inspections on record going back to May 5, 2022, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 15, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 15, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 9, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 20, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| September 11, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| October 24, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 16 pts |
| May 5, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 28 pts |
Metropolitan Deli 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 20% 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 April 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.