Ras Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score32 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 1, 2026 →
• address2801 E Cherry St, Seattle 98122

Is Ras Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant clean?

Ras Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 1, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Ras Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Ras Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant last inspected?

Ras Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant has 9 inspections on record going back to September 8, 2022, averaging 20 points.

Ras Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant vs Central Area

Central Area runs 93% clean across 195 tracked restaurants — 181 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 195 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 September 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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