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The Lime
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 24, 2026
- address8544 122Nd Ave Ne, Kirkland 98033
Is The Lime clean?
The Lime is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 24, 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 Lime?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was The Lime last inspected?
The Lime has 7 inspections on record going back to August 25, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 24, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 5, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| June 23, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| April 18, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| January 3, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 10, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| August 25, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
The Lime 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 9% 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 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.