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Lunchroom
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 10, 2026
- address1617 38Th Ave E, Seattle 98112
Is Lunchroom clean?
Lunchroom is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 10, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Lunchroom?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 10, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
When was Lunchroom last inspected?
Lunchroom has 10 inspections on record going back to October 20, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 10, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 30 pts |
| September 23, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| January 13, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| September 25, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| March 26, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| November 27, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| October 11, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| May 3, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| October 20, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
Lunchroom vs Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill runs 92% clean across 62 tracked restaurants — 57 clean, 5 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 62 spots Cooked tracks in Capitol Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 February 10, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.