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Shay's Restaurant & Lounge
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedAugust 6, 2025
- address15744 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline 98133
Is Shay's Restaurant & Lounge clean?
Shay's Restaurant & Lounge is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 6, 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 Shay's Restaurant & Lounge?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 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
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Shay's Restaurant & Lounge last inspected?
Shay's Restaurant & Lounge has 6 inspections on record going back to June 10, 2021, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| March 20, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| October 26, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| January 23, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| August 3, 2022 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| June 10, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Shay's Restaurant & Lounge vs Shoreline
Shoreline runs 90% clean across 214 tracked restaurants — 192 clean, 21 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 214 spots Cooked tracks in Shoreline, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 August 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.