• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 15, 2025 →
• address819 5Th Ave N, Seattle 98109

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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.

• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Bad Bar last inspected?

Bad Bar has 5 inspections on record going back to October 27, 2021, averaging 2 points.

Bad Bar vs Cascade

Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 40 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 18% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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