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Palace Korean Grill
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 6, 2025
- address15932 Ne 8Th St, Bellevue 98008
Is Palace Korean Grill clean?
Palace Korean Grill is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Palace Korean Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Palace Korean Grill last inspected?
Palace Korean Grill has 8 inspections on record going back to December 7, 2021, averaging 29 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2025 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| January 23, 2024 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| April 21, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 31, 2023 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| March 9, 2023 | Rated Okay | 55 pts |
| September 28, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| September 13, 2022 | Rated Okay | 90 pts |
| December 7, 2021 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
Palace Korean Grill vs Bellevue
Bellevue runs 85% clean across 651 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 651 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.