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Cafe Aroma
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 22, 2026
- address509 Ne 165Th St, Shoreline 98155
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-connections4400 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 22, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 31, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 4, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 5, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Cafe Aroma vs Shoreline
Shoreline runs 90% clean across 214 tracked restaurants — 192 clean, 21 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 214 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.
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.