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Macu Tea
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score7 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 29, 2026
- address1100 Ne 45Th St, 100, Seattle 98105
Is Macu Tea clean?
Macu Tea is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 29, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Macu Tea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 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
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
When was Macu Tea last inspected?
Macu Tea has 3 inspections on record going back to February 1, 2024, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
| April 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| February 1, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Macu Tea vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.