Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant

• ratingRated Needs To Improve
• inspection score0 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 5, 2026 →
• address5500 8Th Ave Nw, Seattle 98107

Is Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant clean?

Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant is currently Rated Needs To Improve from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 5, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 5, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

When was Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant last inspected?

Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant has 12 inspections on record going back to May 9, 2022, averaging 31 points.

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

History worth a look: 11 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

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Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant 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 45% 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 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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