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The Koza Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 1, 2026
- address935 6Th St S, Kirkland 98033
Is The Koza Cafe clean?
The Koza Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 1, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Koza Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3800 - Utensils, equipment, linens properly stored, used, handled3800 - Utensils, equipment, linens properly stored, used, handled
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was The Koza Cafe last inspected?
The Koza Cafe has 5 inspections on record going back to November 6, 2023, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 1, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| November 25, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 16, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 12 pts |
| March 28, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 6, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
The Koza Cafe 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 18% 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 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.