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Sai Sushi & Sake
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 22, 2025
- address25 W Mercer St, Seattle 98119
Is Sai Sushi & Sake clean?
Sai Sushi & Sake is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 22, 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 Sai Sushi & Sake?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fishcritical1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fish
When was Sai Sushi & Sake last inspected?
Sai Sushi & Sake has 5 inspections on record going back to January 11, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| September 16, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 30, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 28, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 11, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Sai Sushi & Sake vs Interbay
Interbay runs 91% clean across 92 tracked restaurants — 84 clean, 8 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 92 spots Cooked tracks in Interbay, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.