Ballard Kiss Cafe

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 15, 2026 →
• address2817 Nw Market St, Seattle 98107

Is Ballard Kiss Cafe clean?

Ballard Kiss Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 15, 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 Kiss Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Ballard Kiss Cafe last inspected?

Ballard Kiss Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to May 1, 2023, averaging 7 points.

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

Ballard Kiss Cafe 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.

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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 October 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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