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Emerald Garden
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 7, 2026
- address11842 98Th Ave Ne, Kirkland 98034
Is Emerald Garden clean?
Emerald Garden is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 7, 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 Emerald Garden?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Emerald Garden last inspected?
Emerald Garden has 8 inspections on record going back to September 16, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 13, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 14, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 1, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 4, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 15, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 16, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Emerald Garden vs Kirkland
Kirkland runs 96% clean across 337 tracked restaurants — 322 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 337 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 April 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.