Kobuta & Ookami Katsu & Sake

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJanuary 29, 2026 →
• address121 15Th Ave E, Seattle 98112

Is Kobuta & Ookami Katsu & Sake clean?

Kobuta & Ookami Katsu & Sake is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 29, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Kobuta & Ookami Katsu & Sake?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Kobuta & Ookami Katsu & Sake last inspected?

Kobuta & Ookami Katsu & Sake has 7 inspections on record going back to January 31, 2023, averaging 21 points.

Kobuta & Ookami Katsu & Sake vs Central Area

Central Area runs 93% clean across 195 tracked restaurants — 181 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 195 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, 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.

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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 January 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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