Little Donkey

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedApril 13, 2026
• address3401 California Ave Sw, Seattle 98116

Is Little Donkey clean?

Little Donkey is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 13, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Little Donkey?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 13, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
  0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
• ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical
  1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Little Donkey last inspected?

Little Donkey has 2 inspections on record going back to April 2, 2025, averaging 5 points.

Little Donkey vs West Seattle

West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 April 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.