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Nara Chinese Restaurant
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 3, 2026
- address15033 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline 98133
Is Nara Chinese Restaurant clean?
Nara Chinese Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 3, 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 Nara Chinese Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Nara Chinese Restaurant last inspected?
Nara Chinese Restaurant has 8 inspections on record going back to April 12, 2022, averaging 26 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 3, 2026 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| February 20, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| January 27, 2025 | Rated Okay | 70 pts |
| October 7, 2024 | Rated Okay | 35 pts |
| February 20, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| October 12, 2023 | Rated Okay | 35 pts |
| June 15, 2023 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| April 12, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Nara Chinese Restaurant vs Shoreline
Shoreline runs 90% clean across 214 tracked restaurants — 192 clean, 21 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 214 spots Cooked tracks in Shoreline, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.
Other spots in Shoreline
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 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.