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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 rightcritical2110 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 23, 2026 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| April 8, 2025 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
| May 29, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| November 7, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| October 26, 2023 | Rated Okay | 92 pts |
| September 28, 2022 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| February 1, 2022 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| January 19, 2022 | Rated Okay | 63 pts |
| March 11, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Kona Kitchen vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, 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 February 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.