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Red Pepper
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 4, 2026
- address4545 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105
Is Red Pepper clean?
Red Pepper is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 4, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Red Pepper?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 4, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Red Pepper last inspected?
Red Pepper has 7 inspections on record going back to April 28, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 4, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 13, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
| August 14, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 17 pts |
| February 14, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 35 pts |
| March 3, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| April 28, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Red Pepper vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 48% 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 March 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.