Simply Soulful Cafe & Espresso

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 1, 2026 →
• address2909 E Madison St, Seattle 98112

Is Simply Soulful Cafe & Espresso clean?

Simply Soulful Cafe & Espresso is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 1, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Simply Soulful Cafe & Espresso?

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

• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained

When was Simply Soulful Cafe & Espresso last inspected?

Simply Soulful Cafe & Espresso has 6 inspections on record going back to May 1, 2023, averaging 8 points.

Simply Soulful Cafe & Espresso vs Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill runs 89% clean across 64 tracked restaurants — 56 clean, 6 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 64 spots Cooked tracks in Capitol Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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 July 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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