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Honeybee Fried Chicken
- ratingRated Needs To Improve
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 8, 2026
- address4744 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105
Is Honeybee Fried Chicken clean?
Honeybee Fried Chicken is currently Rated Needs To Improve from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 8, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Honeybee Fried Chicken?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods
When was Honeybee Fried Chicken last inspected?
Honeybee Fried Chicken has 7 inspections on record going back to May 2, 2024, averaging 34 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 8, 2026 | Rated Needs To Improve | 12 pts |
| January 12, 2026 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| January 8, 2026 | closed by the city | 120 pts |
| August 12, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 20 pts |
| February 4, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| January 9, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 75 pts |
| May 2, 2024 | Rated Needs To Improve | 8 pts |
Honeybee Fried Chicken 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 16% 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 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.