Ku

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 28, 2026 →
• address5210 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105

Is Ku clean?

Ku is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 28, 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 Ku?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 28, 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
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical

When was Ku last inspected?

Ku has 6 inspections on record going back to January 12, 2022, averaging 8 points.

Ku vs University District

University District runs 88% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 290 clean, 40 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 May 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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