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Starting Gate Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 4, 2025
- address504 Auburn Way N, Auburn 98002
Is Starting Gate Restaurant clean?
Starting Gate Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 4, 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 Starting Gate Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Starting Gate Restaurant last inspected?
Starting Gate Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to September 29, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 4, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| March 28, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| May 2, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| October 25, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 9, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| September 29, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Starting Gate Restaurant vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 November 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.