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Abuelita's Kitchen
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 31, 2026
- address8552 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle 98103
Is Abuelita's Kitchen clean?
Abuelita's Kitchen is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 31, 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 Abuelita's Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ⚠️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
When was Abuelita's Kitchen last inspected?
Abuelita's Kitchen has 6 inspections on record going back to November 15, 2023, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2026 | Rated Good | 13 pts |
| September 19, 2025 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| January 17, 2025 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| July 29, 2024 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| February 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 15, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Abuelita's Kitchen vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 March 31, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.