Big Mario's / Alpine Diner

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score30 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 19, 2025
• address9635 16Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98106

Is Big Mario's / Alpine Diner clean?

Big Mario's / Alpine Diner is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 19, 2025. 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 Big Mario's / Alpine Diner?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
  4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• 🚰handwashing sink issuescritical
  0500 - Proper barriers used to prevent bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods

When was Big Mario's / Alpine Diner last inspected?

Big Mario's / Alpine Diner has 4 inspections on record going back to February 12, 2024, averaging 18 points.

Big Mario's / Alpine Diner vs White Center

White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 November 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.