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Bella Balducci's
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 26, 2026
- address11834 98Th Ave Ne, Kirkland 98034
Is Bella Balducci's clean?
Bella Balducci's is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 26, 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 Bella Balducci's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Bella Balducci's last inspected?
Bella Balducci's has 13 inspections on record going back to May 20, 2021, averaging 27 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 26, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| December 23, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| September 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| April 8, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| December 13, 2024 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| April 3, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 25, 2024 | Rated Good | 98 pts |
| September 12, 2023 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| November 9, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| October 14, 2022 | Rated Good | 53 pts |
| February 15, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 21, 2022 | Rated Good | 68 pts |
Bella Balducci's vs Kirkland
Kirkland runs 96% clean across 337 tracked restaurants — 322 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 337 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 March 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.