Kau Kau Barbeque Market

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score80 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedAugust 24, 2026 →
• address656 S King St, Seattle 98104

Is Kau Kau Barbeque Market clean?

Kau Kau Barbeque Market is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 24, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Kau Kau Barbeque Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  0400 - Hands washed as required
• 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical
  1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
• 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical
  1600 - Proper cooling procedure
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Kau Kau Barbeque Market last inspected?

Kau Kau Barbeque Market has 6 inspections on record going back to August 7, 2024, averaging 30 points.

Kau Kau Barbeque Market vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,737 tracked restaurants — 1,581 clean, 148 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,737 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.

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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 August 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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