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Lake Route
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 12, 2026
- address9261 57Th Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Lake Route clean?
Lake Route is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 12, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lake Route?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
When was Lake Route last inspected?
Lake Route has 10 inspections on record going back to June 24, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 12, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 20, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 7, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 25, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| March 15, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 28, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 19, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 22, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 20, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 24, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Lake Route vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 42% of them.
Other spots in Rainier Valley
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 June 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.