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Ballard Market
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 17, 2026
- address1400 Nw 56Th St, Seattle 98107
Is Ballard Market clean?
Ballard Market is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 17, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
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 rightcritical2110 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 17, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| August 13, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 15 pts |
| February 6, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| October 8, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| May 6, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 8 pts |
| June 2, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| March 1, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Ballard Market 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 12% 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 February 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.