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Ballard Smoke Shop
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 30, 2026
- address5439 Ballard Ave Nw, Seattle 98107
Is Ballard Smoke Shop clean?
Ballard Smoke Shop is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 30, 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 Smoke Shop?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Ballard Smoke Shop last inspected?
Ballard Smoke Shop has 7 inspections on record going back to June 3, 2022, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 30, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| October 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| April 17, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| July 8, 2024 | Rated Good | 22 pts |
| January 23, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 22, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 3, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Ballard Smoke Shop 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 April 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.