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Metropolitan Market/ Bistro & Catering
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 24, 2026
- address100 Mercer St, Seattle 98109
Is Metropolitan Market/ Bistro & Catering clean?
Metropolitan Market/ Bistro & Catering is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 24, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Metropolitan Market/ Bistro & Catering?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
- 🧊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 Market/ Bistro & Catering last inspected?
Metropolitan Market/ Bistro & Catering has 8 inspections on record going back to June 4, 2021, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 24, 2026 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| August 13, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| July 29, 2025 | Rated Okay | 50 pts |
| January 3, 2025 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| June 20, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| May 22, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| June 15, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| June 4, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Metropolitan Market/ Bistro & Catering 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 1% 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 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.