Shodai Restaurant

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score27 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 27, 2026
• address1123 M L King Jr Way, Seattle 98122

Is Shodai Restaurant clean?

Shodai Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 27, 2026. 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 Shodai Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
  3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
  4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
  4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
  2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Shodai Restaurant last inspected?

Shodai Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to March 18, 2025, averaging 26 points.

Shodai Restaurant vs Central Area

Central Area runs 93% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.