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Chuan House
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score23 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 27, 2026
- address4509 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105
Is Chuan House clean?
Chuan House is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 27, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Chuan House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Chuan House last inspected?
Chuan House has 5 inspections on record going back to November 27, 2023, averaging 23 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 27, 2026 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| October 1, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| April 16, 2025 | Rated Good | 26 pts |
| July 5, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| November 27, 2023 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
Chuan House vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 March 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.