Imperial Lounge

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score41 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedApril 9, 2026
• address2400 1St Ave, Seattle 98121

Is Imperial Lounge clean?

Imperial Lounge is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 9, 2026. 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 Imperial Lounge?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 9, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
  3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
  2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
  0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt

When was Imperial Lounge last inspected?

Imperial Lounge has 5 inspections on record going back to July 18, 2023, averaging 33 points.

Imperial Lounge vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.

Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.