Kona Kitchen

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 23, 2026 →
• address8501 5Th Ave Ne, Seattle 98115

Is Kona Kitchen clean?

Kona Kitchen is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 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 Kona Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Kona Kitchen last inspected?

Kona Kitchen has 9 inspections on record going back to March 11, 2021, averaging 27 points.

Kona Kitchen vs Northgate

Northgate runs 94% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 311 clean, 20 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 February 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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