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Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 8, 2026
- address5500 8Th Ave Nw, Seattle 98107
Is Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant clean?
Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 8, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 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 Mandarin Chinese Restaurant last inspected?
Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant has 10 inspections on record going back to May 9, 2022, averaging 33 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 8, 2026 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| November 17, 2025 | Rated Okay | 45 pts |
| July 9, 2025 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| December 17, 2024 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| February 15, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| February 5, 2024 | Rated Okay | 51 pts |
| March 27, 2023 | Rated Okay | 23 pts |
| September 7, 2022 | Rated Okay | 45 pts |
| May 19, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| May 9, 2022 | Rated Okay | 86 pts |
Ballard Mandarin Chinese Restaurant 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 3% 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 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.