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Sunlight Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 22, 2026
- address6404 9Th Ave Ne, #100, Seattle 98115
Is Sunlight Cafe clean?
Sunlight Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Sunlight Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Sunlight Cafe last inspected?
Sunlight Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to June 23, 2021, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| September 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| April 13, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 26, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 13, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| June 23, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 35 pts |
Sunlight Cafe vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 39% 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, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.