Bay Cafe #108 is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 17, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 17, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
Bay Cafe #108 has 8 inspections on record going back to September 22, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 17, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 30, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 13, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| July 16, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 2, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 21, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| September 22, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants β 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 42% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.