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Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score34 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 27, 2026
- address2722 E Cherry St, Seattle 98122
Is Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant clean?
Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 27, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 27, 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
- ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
- ⚠️1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contaminationcritical1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contamination
When was Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant last inspected?
Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant has 11 inspections on record going back to January 19, 2021, averaging 26 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2026 | Rated Okay | 34 pts |
| November 19, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| November 5, 2025 | Rated Okay | 44 pts |
| April 10, 2025 | Rated Okay | 24 pts |
| November 1, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| October 24, 2024 | Rated Okay | 50 pts |
| March 8, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| April 3, 2023 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| May 25, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| May 11, 2022 | Rated Okay | 50 pts |
| January 19, 2021 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant vs Central Area
Central Area runs 94% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 155 clean, 10 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.