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Buho Spirits
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 24, 2026
- address9640 A 16Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98106
Is Buho Spirits clean?
Buho Spirits is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 24, 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 Buho Spirits?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Buho Spirits last inspected?
Buho Spirits has 4 inspections on record going back to June 23, 2023, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 24, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| March 6, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 16 pts |
| August 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 23, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Buho Spirits 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 19% of them.
Other spots in White Center
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 February 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.