Nikki's Restaurant & Lounge

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score25 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedApril 3, 2025
• address27120 174Th Pl Se, Covington 98042

Is Nikki's Restaurant & Lounge clean?

Nikki's Restaurant & Lounge is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 3, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Nikki's Restaurant & Lounge?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
  0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria

When was Nikki's Restaurant & Lounge last inspected?

Nikki's Restaurant & Lounge has 5 inspections on record going back to March 22, 2023, averaging 14 points.

Nikki's Restaurant & Lounge vs Covington

Covington runs 85% clean across 175 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 175 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.