Tanaka Ramen & Izakaya

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score25 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 30, 2026
• address312 Central Way, # 103, Kirkland 98033

Is Tanaka Ramen & Izakaya clean?

Tanaka Ramen & Izakaya is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 30, 2026. 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 Tanaka Ramen & Izakaya?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical
  1600 - Proper cooling procedure

When was Tanaka Ramen & Izakaya last inspected?

Tanaka Ramen & Izakaya has 2 inspections on record going back to February 25, 2026, averaging 13 points.

Tanaka Ramen & Izakaya vs Kirkland

Kirkland runs 96% clean across 337 tracked restaurants — 322 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 337 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, 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 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.