Sodam Chicken 2

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score39 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 22, 2026 →
• address1818 E Madison St, Seattle 98122

Is Sodam Chicken 2 clean?

Sodam Chicken 2 is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 22, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Sodam Chicken 2?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical
  1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Sodam Chicken 2 last inspected?

Sodam Chicken 2 has 8 inspections on record going back to August 8, 2023, averaging 22 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Sodam Chicken 2 vs Central Area

Central Area runs 90% clean across 198 tracked restaurants — 179 clean, 19 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 198 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 September 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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