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Taste Of The Caribbean
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 5, 2026
- address1212 E Jefferson St, Seattle 98122
Is Taste Of The Caribbean clean?
Taste Of The Caribbean is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 5, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Taste Of The Caribbean?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
When was Taste Of The Caribbean last inspected?
Taste Of The Caribbean has 9 inspections on record going back to March 23, 2021, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 12 pts |
| October 30, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 12 pts |
| March 11, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 17 pts |
| September 5, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 11 pts |
| April 16, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| November 3, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| February 2, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| October 20, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| March 23, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Taste Of The Caribbean vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 May 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.