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Ampersand Cafe - Alki
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score2 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 6, 2026
- address2536 Alki Ave Sw, Seattle 98116
Is Ampersand Cafe - Alki clean?
Ampersand Cafe - Alki is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ampersand Cafe - Alki?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
When was Ampersand Cafe - Alki last inspected?
Ampersand Cafe - Alki has 10 inspections on record going back to January 21, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
| October 29, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| March 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 3, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| March 25, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 6, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| February 23, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 18, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 20, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 21, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Ampersand Cafe - Alki vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 42% 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 May 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.