Yellow Bee Market & Cafe

• ratingRated Needs To Improve
• inspection score32 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 1, 2026 →
• address922 E Yesler Way, Seattle 98122

Is Yellow Bee Market & Cafe clean?

Yellow Bee Market & Cafe is currently Rated Needs To Improve from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 1, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Yellow Bee Market & Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical
  1600 - Proper cooling procedure
• 🧊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 Yellow Bee Market & Cafe last inspected?

Yellow Bee Market & Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to August 14, 2024, averaging 15 points.

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

History worth a look: 6 of these 6 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Yellow Bee Market & Cafe 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 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.

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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 May 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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