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Sunny Teriyaki
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 29, 2026
- address2120 W Emerson Pl, Seattle 98199
Is Sunny Teriyaki clean?
Sunny Teriyaki is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 29, 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 Sunny Teriyaki?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Sunny Teriyaki last inspected?
Sunny Teriyaki has 7 inspections on record going back to November 7, 2022, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| May 23, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 10, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| April 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 40 pts |
| January 4, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| May 9, 2023 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| November 7, 2022 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
Sunny Teriyaki vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 April 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.