Cooked?Lake City Shell
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New visit. Decision pending.
Public Health — Seattle & King County has not posted a settled rating for this visit.
- ratingGrade pending
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 14, 2026 →
- address8721 Lake City Way Ne, Seattle 98115
Is Lake City Shell clean?
Seattle currently lists Lake City Shell as grade pending, following an inspection on September 14, 2026 that scored 5 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.
What did inspectors find at Lake City Shell?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
When was Lake City Shell last inspected?
Lake City Shell has 2 inspections on record going back to June 18, 2025, averaging 3 points.
September 14, 2026 Score 5
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View full inspection →June 18, 2025 Score 0
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View full inspection →Lake City Shell vs Northgate
Northgate runs 94% clean across 334 tracked restaurants — 315 clean, 19 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 334 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 September 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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