Little Garden
14725 Ne 20th St, Bellevue, WA 98007
How the BiteKarma score works
Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.
The official rating comes from Public Health – Seattle & King County, which looks at the trend of the last few routine inspections, so it can differ from the BiteKarma score. The BiteKarma score works the same way in every city we cover.
At a glance
- Keeps coming up: Adequate handwashing facilities, cited 2 times, plus 7 other repeat issues.
- #54 in Seattle's Hall of Shame, among the lowest BiteKarma scores in the city.
- Passed 2 of 6 graded inspections since 2020.
- Last inspected Nov 5, 2025: failed with 12 violations, 5 critical. That was over a year ago, so things may have changed.
- 5 critical violations in the last two years.
Inspection history 6 visits
- 2025
- Failed Nov 5
Routine Inspection
12 violations, 5 critical
- Critical Adequate handwashing facilities
- Critical Food-contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contamination
- Critical No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
- Critical Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
- Critical PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- Minor Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- Minor Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- Minor Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- Minor Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- Minor Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- Minor Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 2024
- Failed Sep 3
Routine Inspection
6 violations, 1 critical
- Critical PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on
- Minor Food-contact surfaces maintained, clean, sanitized
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- Minor Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- Minor Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used
- Minor Food and non-food surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- 2023
- Failed Aug 21
Routine Inspection
6 violations, 1 critical
- Critical Proper cold holding temperatures (greater than 45°F)
- Minor Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- Minor Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- Minor Food-contact surfaces maintained, clean, sanitized
- Minor Food and non-food surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- 2022
- Failed Sep 23
Routine Inspection
6 violations, 3 critical
- Critical Adequate handwashing facilities
- Critical Toxic substances properly identified…
- Critical Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods
- Minor Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- Minor Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- Minor Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
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