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Box Car Alehouse
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 29, 2026
- address3407 Gilman Ave W, Seattle 98199
Is Box Car Alehouse clean?
Box Car Alehouse is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 29, 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 Box Car Alehouse?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Box Car Alehouse last inspected?
Box Car Alehouse has 8 inspections on record going back to May 17, 2021, averaging 4 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| July 2, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 21, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| January 3, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 2, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| December 12, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 17, 2021 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Box Car Alehouse vs Interbay
Interbay runs 91% clean across 92 tracked restaurants — 84 clean, 8 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 92 spots Cooked tracks in Interbay, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.