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.

• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• ⚠️1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contaminationcritical

When was Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant last inspected?

Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant has 11 inspections on record going back to January 19, 2021, averaging 26 points.

Zagol Ethiopian Restaurant vs Central Area

Central Area runs 93% clean across 195 tracked restaurants — 181 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 195 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.

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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 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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