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Ding Tea
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 6, 2026
- address4725 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105
Is Ding Tea clean?
Ding Tea is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ding Tea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 6, 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
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Ding Tea last inspected?
Ding Tea has 7 inspections on record going back to May 14, 2021, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 6, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| June 4, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 21, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 17, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 18, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| March 2, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 30 pts |
| May 14, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Ding Tea 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 27% 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 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.