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Bongos Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 7, 2026
- address6501 Aurora Ave N, Seattle 98103
Is Bongos Cafe clean?
Bongos Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Bongos Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Bongos Cafe last inspected?
Bongos Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2022, averaging 4 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 29, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| December 4, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 5, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 24, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 9, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Bongos Cafe vs North Central
North Central runs 97% clean across 216 tracked restaurants — 210 clean, 6 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 216 spots Cooked tracks in North Central, this one comes out cleaner than 18% 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 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.