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Canon Whisky & Bitters Emporium
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 5, 2026
- address928 12Th Ave, Seattle 98122
Is Canon Whisky & Bitters Emporium clean?
Canon Whisky & Bitters Emporium is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 5, 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 Canon Whisky & Bitters Emporium?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2700 - Compliance with variance; specialized processes; HACCP plancritical2700 - Compliance with variance; specialized processes; HACCP plan
When was Canon Whisky & Bitters Emporium last inspected?
Canon Whisky & Bitters Emporium has 4 inspections on record going back to March 2, 2023, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 5, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| February 22, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 2, 2023 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
Canon Whisky & Bitters Emporium vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 March 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.