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North Star Diner
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 10, 2026
- address8580 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle 98103
Is North Star Diner clean?
North Star Diner is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 10, 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 North Star Diner?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 10, 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
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was North Star Diner last inspected?
North Star Diner has 8 inspections on record going back to January 19, 2022, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 10, 2026 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 19, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| April 9, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 22, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| July 29, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| December 29, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| May 17, 2023 | Rated Good | 13 pts |
| January 19, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
North Star Diner vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 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.
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 10, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.