Brown Bear Car Wash

• ratingGrade pending
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 6, 2026 →
• address1800 15Th Ave W, Seattle 98119

Is Brown Bear Car Wash clean?

Seattle currently lists Brown Bear Car Wash as grade pending, following an inspection on January 6, 2026 that scored 5 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.

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 enoughcritical
  2120 - 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.

Brown Bear Car Wash vs Interbay

Interbay runs 91% clean across 93 tracked restaurants — 85 clean, 8 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 93 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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