Cooked?Niku Niku Yakiniku
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 17, 2025 →
- address13200 Aurora Ave N, G, Seattle 98133
Is Niku Niku Yakiniku clean?
Niku Niku Yakiniku is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 17, 2025. 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 Niku Niku Yakiniku?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Niku Niku Yakiniku last inspected?
Niku Niku Yakiniku has 3 inspections on record going back to April 13, 2023, averaging 15 points.
September 17, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →March 27, 2024 Good
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View full inspection →April 13, 2023 Good
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View full inspection →Niku Niku Yakiniku vs Northgate
Northgate runs 94% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 311 clean, 20 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 September 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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