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Sushi Kanpai Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 11, 2026
- address900 8Th Ave, Seattle 98104
Is Sushi Kanpai Restaurant clean?
Sushi Kanpai Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 11, 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 Sushi Kanpai Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧊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 Sushi Kanpai Restaurant last inspected?
Sushi Kanpai Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to November 17, 2021, averaging 18 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 11, 2026 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| January 14, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| July 31, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| December 22, 2023 | Rated Good | 26 pts |
| February 23, 2023 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| July 28, 2022 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| November 17, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Sushi Kanpai Restaurant vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, 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 March 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.