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Gim Wah Restaurant
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score38 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedNovember 5, 2025
- address3418 W Mcgraw St, Seattle 98199
Is Gim Wah Restaurant clean?
Gim Wah Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 5, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Gim Wah Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
- ⚠️1000 - Food in good condition, safe and unadulterated; approved additivescritical1000 - Food in good condition, safe and unadulterated; approved additives
When was Gim Wah Restaurant last inspected?
Gim Wah Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to March 5, 2021, averaging 26 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 5, 2025 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| March 13, 2025 | Rated Okay | 33 pts |
| October 16, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| May 15, 2024 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| December 14, 2023 | Rated Okay | 18 pts |
| March 9, 2023 | Rated Okay | 23 pts |
| March 5, 2021 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
Gim Wah Restaurant vs Magnolia
Magnolia runs 90% clean across 21 tracked restaurants — 19 clean, 2 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 21 spots Cooked tracks in Magnolia, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
Other spots in Magnolia
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 November 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.