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.

• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical

When was Marlai Restaurant last inspected?

Marlai Restaurant has 8 inspections on record going back to June 8, 2021, averaging 21 points.

Marlai Restaurant vs University District

University District runs 88% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 290 clean, 40 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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