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Metropolitan Market #153 -Bistro
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 5, 2026
- address2320 42Nd Ave Sw, Seattle 98116
Is Metropolitan Market #153 -Bistro clean?
Metropolitan Market #153 -Bistro is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 5, 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 Market #153 -Bistro?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Metropolitan Market #153 -Bistro last inspected?
Metropolitan Market #153 -Bistro has 11 inspections on record going back to February 10, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 5, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| August 13, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| March 5, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| September 18, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 12, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 3, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 21, 2024 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| November 9, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 24, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 16, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 10, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Metropolitan Market #153 -Bistro vs Greater Duwamish
Greater Duwamish runs 90% clean across 146 tracked restaurants — 132 clean, 12 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 146 spots Cooked tracks in Greater Duwamish, this one comes out cleaner than 12% of them.
Other spots in Greater Duwamish
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 January 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.