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Kitanda
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 29, 2026
- address1121 Ne 45Th St, Seattle 98105
Is Kitanda clean?
Kitanda is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 29, 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 Kitanda?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
When was Kitanda last inspected?
Kitanda has 7 inspections on record going back to February 9, 2023, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| April 3, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 3, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 26, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 31, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 9, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
Kitanda vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.