Kai's Bistro & Lounge

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score30 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJuly 9, 2026 →
• address1312 Ne 43Rd St, Seattle 98105

Is Kai's Bistro & Lounge clean?

Kai's Bistro & Lounge is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 9, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Kai's Bistro & Lounge?

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

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• ⚠️1000 - Food in good condition, safe and unadulterated; approved additivescritical

When was Kai's Bistro & Lounge last inspected?

Kai's Bistro & Lounge has 8 inspections on record going back to September 16, 2021, averaging 25 points.

Kai's Bistro & Lounge vs University District

University District runs 88% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 290 clean, 40 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated July 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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