Cooked?Metropolitan Deli
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 25, 2025 →
- address505 Madison St, Seattle 98104
Is Metropolitan Deli clean?
Metropolitan Deli is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 25, 2025. 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 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Metropolitan Deli last inspected?
Metropolitan Deli has 2 inspections on record going back to October 7, 2024, averaging 13 points.
August 25, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →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 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.
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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 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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