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Nick's On Madison
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 25, 2025
- address3131 E Madison St, 100, Seattle 98112
Is Nick's On Madison clean?
Nick's On Madison is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 25, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Nick's On Madison?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
When was Nick's On Madison last inspected?
Nick's On Madison has 8 inspections on record going back to May 28, 2021, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 25, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 16, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| December 11, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| August 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| July 31, 2024 | Rated Good | 45 pts |
| August 25, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| October 21, 2022 | Rated Good | 13 pts |
| May 28, 2021 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
Nick's On Madison vs Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill runs 92% clean across 62 tracked restaurants — 57 clean, 5 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 62 spots Cooked tracks in Capitol Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 September 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.