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Kangaroo & Kiwi
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 16, 2026
- address2026 Nw Market St, Seattle 98107
Is Kangaroo & Kiwi clean?
Kangaroo & Kiwi is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 16, 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 Kangaroo & Kiwi?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Kangaroo & Kiwi last inspected?
Kangaroo & Kiwi has 10 inspections on record going back to January 21, 2022, averaging 16 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 16, 2026 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| December 5, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| August 19, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| March 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| June 26, 2024 | Rated Good | 26 pts |
| January 18, 2024 | Rated Good | 28 pts |
| March 16, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 15, 2023 | Rated Good | 47 pts |
| August 30, 2022 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| January 21, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Kangaroo & Kiwi vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.