Safeway #1550-Deli is currently Rated Okay from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 11, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation β the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid π¬.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Safeway #1550-Deli has 13 inspections on record going back to February 2, 2021, averaging 20 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 11, 2026 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| August 15, 2025 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| February 10, 2025 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| May 20, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| January 4, 2024 | Rated Okay | 33 pts |
| August 22, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| August 8, 2023 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| January 11, 2023 | Rated Okay | 35 pts |
| October 25, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| October 12, 2022 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| February 7, 2022 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| November 15, 2021 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants β 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.