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Barking Dog Ale House
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 13, 2026
- address705 Nw 70Th St, Seattle 98117
Is Barking Dog Ale House clean?
Barking Dog Ale House is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 13, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Barking Dog Ale House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 13, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Barking Dog Ale House last inspected?
Barking Dog Ale House has 8 inspections on record going back to November 18, 2022, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 13, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 23, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 15, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| June 12, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 15, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| April 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 18, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
Barking Dog Ale House 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 29% 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 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.