Cafe Bambino is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 4, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 4, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
Cafe Bambino has 6 inspections on record going back to October 11, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 4, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 28, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 29, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 29, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 18, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 11, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants β 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 42% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated June 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.