• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 22, 2026 →
• address509 Ne 165Th St, Shoreline 98155

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Is Cafe Aroma clean?

Cafe Aroma is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cafe Aroma?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections

When was Cafe Aroma last inspected?

Cafe Aroma has 4 inspections on record going back to June 5, 2023, averaging 4 points.

Cafe Aroma vs Shoreline

Shoreline runs 90% clean across 223 tracked restaurants — 200 clean, 22 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 223 spots Cooked tracks in Shoreline, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 June 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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