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Soulful Dishes
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score27 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 28, 2026
- address1800 E Yesler Way, Seattle 98122
Is Soulful Dishes clean?
Soulful Dishes is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 28, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Soulful Dishes?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Soulful Dishes last inspected?
Soulful Dishes has 8 inspections on record going back to April 1, 2021, averaging 18 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 28, 2026 | Rated Good | 27 pts |
| October 27, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| March 18, 2025 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| October 8, 2024 | Rated Good | 43 pts |
| January 11, 2024 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| March 1, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| October 21, 2022 | Rated Good | 13 pts |
| April 1, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Soulful Dishes 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 2% 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 April 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.