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Ballard Beer Box
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 23, 2026
- address2446 Nw Market St, Seattle 98107
Is Ballard Beer Box clean?
Ballard Beer Box is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 23, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ballard Beer Box?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Ballard Beer Box last inspected?
Ballard Beer Box has 6 inspections on record going back to October 6, 2023, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 12, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
| May 14, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 26, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 20, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 6, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
Ballard Beer Box 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 29% 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 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.