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Sushi Joa
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score43 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 21, 2025
- address2717 78Th Ave Se, Mercer Island 98040
Is Sushi Joa clean?
Sushi Joa is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 21, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Sushi Joa?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Sushi Joa last inspected?
Sushi Joa has 5 inspections on record going back to March 8, 2023, averaging 29 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 21, 2025 | Rated Okay | 43 pts |
| February 28, 2024 | Rated Okay | 33 pts |
| October 25, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| September 19, 2023 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| March 8, 2023 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
Sushi Joa vs Mercer Island
Mercer Island runs 94% clean across 127 tracked restaurants — 119 clean, 7 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 127 spots Cooked tracks in Mercer Island, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.
Other spots in Mercer Island
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 February 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.