Chi Mac Seattle

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score47 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedApril 8, 2025 →
• address4525 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105

Is Chi Mac Seattle clean?

Chi Mac Seattle is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 8, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Chi Mac Seattle?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained

When was Chi Mac Seattle last inspected?

Chi Mac Seattle has 5 inspections on record going back to December 8, 2021, averaging 29 points.

Chi Mac Seattle vs University District

University District runs 88% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 290 clean, 40 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 April 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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