Ballard Coffee Company

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 22, 2026 →
• address5905 15Th Ave Nw, Seattle 98107

Is Ballard Coffee Company clean?

Ballard Coffee Company is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 22, 2026. 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 Ballard Coffee Company?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used

When was Ballard Coffee Company last inspected?

Ballard Coffee Company has 9 inspections on record going back to July 21, 2022, averaging 7 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Ballard Coffee Company vs Ballard

Ballard runs 93% clean across 356 tracked restaurants — 331 clean, 24 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 356 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 September 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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