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Than Brother's Restaurant
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedDecember 4, 2025
- address4207 University Way Ne, Seattle 98105
Is Than Brother's Restaurant clean?
Than Brother's Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 4, 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 Than Brother's Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Than Brother's Restaurant last inspected?
Than Brother's Restaurant has 9 inspections on record going back to May 21, 2021, averaging 30 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 4, 2025 | Rated Okay | 13 pts |
| May 8, 2025 | Rated Okay | 35 pts |
| October 17, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| October 3, 2024 | Rated Okay | 70 pts |
| March 19, 2024 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| April 4, 2023 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
| April 13, 2022 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| March 22, 2022 | Rated Okay | 60 pts |
| May 21, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Than Brother's Restaurant 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 14% 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 December 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.