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Neko
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 22, 2026
- address519 E Pine St, Seattle 98122
Is Neko clean?
Neko is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Neko?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 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
When was Neko last inspected?
Neko has 6 inspections on record going back to March 24, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| May 5, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| January 3, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 6, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 29, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 24, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Neko vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 May 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.