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Ballard Jam House
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 26, 2026
- address1707 Nw Market St, Seattle 98107
Is Ballard Jam House clean?
Ballard Jam House is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 26, 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 Ballard Jam House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️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
When was Ballard Jam House last inspected?
Ballard Jam House has 5 inspections on record going back to November 3, 2022, averaging 4 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 26, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| April 10, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 9, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| October 30, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 3, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Ballard Jam House 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 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.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.