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Hudson Diner
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 18, 2026
- address5000 E Marginal Way S, Seattle 98134
Is Hudson Diner clean?
Hudson Diner is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 18, 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 Hudson Diner?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Hudson Diner last inspected?
Hudson Diner has 8 inspections on record going back to April 13, 2022, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 18, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 14, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 21, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| May 28, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| August 9, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 15, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 4, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 13, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
Hudson Diner vs Greater Duwamish
Greater Duwamish runs 90% clean across 146 tracked restaurants — 132 clean, 12 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 146 spots Cooked tracks in Greater Duwamish, this one comes out cleaner than 23% of them.
Other spots in Greater Duwamish
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 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.