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Bad Alberts Tap And Grill
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score17 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 7, 2026
- address5100 Ballard Ave Nw, Seattle 98107
Is Bad Alberts Tap And Grill clean?
Bad Alberts Tap And Grill is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 7, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Bad Alberts Tap And Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Bad Alberts Tap And Grill last inspected?
Bad Alberts Tap And Grill has 8 inspections on record going back to May 18, 2022, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2026 | Rated Good | 17 pts |
| November 18, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| July 9, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| November 20, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| February 7, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| May 2, 2023 | Rated Good | 27 pts |
| December 15, 2022 | Rated Good | 28 pts |
| May 18, 2022 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
Bad Alberts Tap And Grill vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.