Blue Nile Restaurant

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score42 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 21, 2026 →
• address7821 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118

Is Blue Nile Restaurant clean?

Blue Nile Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 21, 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 Blue Nile Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Blue Nile Restaurant last inspected?

Blue Nile Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to September 26, 2023, averaging 18 points.

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

Blue Nile Restaurant vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 80% clean across 244 tracked restaurants — 195 clean, 45 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 244 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 October 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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