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The Way Market
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 2, 2026
- address7630 Ne Bothell Way, Kenmore 98028
Is The Way Market clean?
The Way Market is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 2, 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 Way Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was The Way Market last inspected?
The Way Market has 7 inspections on record going back to April 21, 2021, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 2, 2026 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| November 3, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 11, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| October 10, 2023 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| January 4, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| January 13, 2022 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| April 21, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
The Way Market vs Kenmore
Kenmore runs 91% clean across 99 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 8 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 99 spots Cooked tracks in Kenmore, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 July 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.