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Saffron Spice
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 18, 2026
- address1901 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98144
Is Saffron Spice clean?
Saffron Spice is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 18, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Saffron Spice?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 18, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Saffron Spice last inspected?
Saffron Spice has 10 inspections on record going back to May 27, 2022, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 20, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 11, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 30, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 11, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 16 pts |
| April 21, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 36 pts |
| November 22, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 28 pts |
| October 31, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 53 pts |
| May 27, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 60 pts |
Saffron Spice vs Central Area
Central Area runs 93% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, 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 May 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.