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Araya's Place
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 19, 2025
- address5240 University Way Ne, #A, Seattle 98105
Is Araya's Place clean?
Araya's Place is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 19, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Araya's Place?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Araya's Place last inspected?
Araya's Place has 8 inspections on record going back to June 14, 2021, averaging 22 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 19, 2025 | Rated Okay | 13 pts |
| March 26, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| July 25, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| July 8, 2024 | Rated Okay | 70 pts |
| April 13, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 28, 2023 | Rated Okay | 50 pts |
| April 14, 2022 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| June 14, 2021 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
Araya's Place vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 August 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.