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Marlai Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 7, 2026
- address3719 Ne 45Th St, Seattle 98105
Is Marlai Restaurant clean?
Marlai Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 7, 2026. 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 Marlai Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Marlai Restaurant last inspected?
Marlai Restaurant has 8 inspections on record going back to June 8, 2021, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2026 | Rated Good | 12 pts |
| September 18, 2025 | Rated Good | 37 pts |
| April 1, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| September 17, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 10, 2024 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| April 20, 2023 | Rated Good | 28 pts |
| April 18, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| June 8, 2021 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Marlai Restaurant 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 16% 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 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.