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Ballard Pizza (241)
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 6, 2026
- address1250 1St Ave S, Seattle 98134
Is Ballard Pizza (241) clean?
Ballard Pizza (241) is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 6, 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 Pizza (241)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Ballard Pizza (241) last inspected?
Ballard Pizza (241) has 8 inspections on record going back to April 7, 2021, averaging 4 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 10, 2026 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 26, 2026 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 27, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| May 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 28, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| July 2, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 7, 2021 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Ballard Pizza (241) vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 May 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.