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Waterfront Deli Market
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score18 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 18, 2026
- address1300 Alaskan Way, Seattle 98101
Is Waterfront Deli Market clean?
Waterfront Deli Market is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 18, 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 Waterfront Deli Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
When was Waterfront Deli Market last inspected?
Waterfront Deli Market has 7 inspections on record going back to February 8, 2023, averaging 25 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2026 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| July 30, 2025 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| March 20, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| August 26, 2024 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| February 21, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| February 5, 2024 | Rated Good | 75 pts |
| February 8, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Waterfront Deli Market 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 5% of them.
Other spots in Downtown
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 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.