Ballard Market

• ratingGrade pending
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 17, 2026 →
• address1400 Nw 56Th St, Seattle 98107

Is Ballard Market clean?

Seattle currently lists Ballard Market as grade pending, following an inspection on February 17, 2026 that scored 10 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.

What did inspectors find at Ballard Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Ballard Market last inspected?

Ballard Market has 7 inspections on record going back to March 1, 2022, averaging 6 points.

Ballard Market vs Ballard

Ballard runs 95% clean across 354 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 19 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 354 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 14% of them.

Other spots in Ballard

• ⏳ Lunchroom
  clean · March 24, 2026
• EX Vera's Pizza And Bar
  clean · May 7, 2026
• EX Ballard 76
  clean · January 20, 2026
• EX Ballard Market - Meat
  clean · February 17, 2026
• EX 74Th St Ale House
  clean · January 16, 2026
• EX Red Mill Restaurant
  clean · April 2, 2026

See every restaurant inspection in Ballard →

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 February 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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