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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 missingcritical0200 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| February 25, 2026 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 16, 2025 | Rated Good | 2 pts |
| December 10, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| July 24, 2024 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| May 1, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Simply Soulful Cafe & Espresso vs Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill runs 92% clean across 62 tracked restaurants — 57 clean, 5 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 62 spots Cooked tracks in Capitol Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 37% 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 July 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.