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Kimchi House
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 30, 2026
- address5809 24Th Ave Nw, Seattle 98107
Is Kimchi House clean?
Kimchi House is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 30, 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 Kimchi House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
When was Kimchi House last inspected?
Kimchi House has 8 inspections on record going back to June 3, 2022, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 30, 2026 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| December 11, 2025 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| June 18, 2025 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| October 24, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| October 10, 2024 | Rated Okay | 48 pts |
| February 22, 2024 | Rated Okay | 31 pts |
| April 25, 2023 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| June 3, 2022 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
Kimchi House 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 11% 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 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.