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Lake Union Cafe, Llc Dba Imperia Lake Union
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 28, 2025
- address3119 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle 98102
Is Lake Union Cafe, Llc Dba Imperia Lake Union clean?
Lake Union Cafe, Llc Dba Imperia Lake Union is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 28, 2025. 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 Lake Union Cafe, Llc Dba Imperia Lake Union?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Lake Union Cafe, Llc Dba Imperia Lake Union last inspected?
Lake Union Cafe, Llc Dba Imperia Lake Union has 6 inspections on record going back to December 17, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| August 29, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 12, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| December 6, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| June 16, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| December 17, 2021 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
Lake Union Cafe, Llc Dba Imperia Lake Union vs North Central
North Central runs 97% clean across 216 tracked restaurants — 210 clean, 6 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 216 spots Cooked tracks in North Central, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 May 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.