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.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Soulful Dishes last inspected?

Soulful Dishes has 8 inspections on record going back to April 1, 2021, averaging 18 points.

Soulful Dishes vs Central Area

Central Area runs 93% clean across 195 tracked restaurants — 181 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 195 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 April 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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