Taste Of The Caribbean

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score7 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 16, 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 October 16, 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 Taste Of The Caribbean?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Taste Of The Caribbean last inspected?

Taste Of The Caribbean has 10 inspections on record going back to March 23, 2021, averaging 13 points.

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

Taste Of The Caribbean vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,783 tracked restaurants — 1,615 clean, 160 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,783 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 October 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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