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Bad Bar
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 15, 2025
- address819 5Th Ave N, Seattle 98109
Is Bad Bar clean?
Bad Bar is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 15, 2025. 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 Bad Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
- ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
When was Bad Bar last inspected?
Bad Bar has 5 inspections on record going back to October 27, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 12 pts |
| October 17, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 14, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 29, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 27, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Bad Bar vs Cascade
Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 273 clean, 38 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.