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Nuodle Express
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedOctober 29, 2025
- address4245 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105
Is Nuodle Express clean?
Nuodle Express is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 29, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Nuodle Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Nuodle Express last inspected?
Nuodle Express has 8 inspections on record going back to December 15, 2021, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 29, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| May 14, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 29, 2025 | Rated Good | 40 pts |
| October 11, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 29, 2024 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| July 25, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| December 6, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| December 15, 2021 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
Nuodle Express vs University District
University District runs 89% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 273 clean, 34 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 October 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.