Cactus is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 23, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Cactus has 8 inspections on record going back to February 7, 2022, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 23, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| October 29, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| June 9, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 13, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 29, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 5, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| February 22, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 7, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 35 pts |
Kirkland runs 96% clean across 337 tracked restaurants β 322 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 337 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, this one comes out cleaner than 37% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.