Salt & Straw is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 20, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
Salt & Straw has 6 inspections on record going back to August 11, 2021, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 20, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 10, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 2, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 30, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 9, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| August 11, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Kirkland runs 96% clean across 337 tracked restaurants β 322 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 337 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, this one comes out cleaner than 39% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.