Cooked?
Brown Bear Car Wash
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 6, 2026
- address1800 15Th Ave W, Seattle 98119
Is Brown Bear Car Wash clean?
Brown Bear Car Wash is currently clean from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 6, 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 Brown Bear Car Wash?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 6, 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 Brown Bear Car Wash last inspected?
Brown Bear Car Wash has 6 inspections on record going back to August 2, 2021, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 6, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| January 6, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| April 12, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| January 25, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| February 23, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| August 2, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Brown Bear Car Wash 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.
Other spots in Interbay
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 January 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.