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Kens Market
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 23, 2026
- address7231 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle 98103
Is Kens Market clean?
Kens Market is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 23, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Kens Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Kens Market last inspected?
Kens Market has 6 inspections on record going back to December 17, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| March 14, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| February 20, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| August 31, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| November 16, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| December 17, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Kens Market 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 12% 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 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.