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Caroline's Tavern
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score3 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 4, 2026
- address13702 15Th Ave Ne, Seattle 98125
Is Caroline's Tavern clean?
Caroline's Tavern is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 4, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Caroline's Tavern?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 4, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️food left unprotected3500 - Employee cleanliness and hygiene
When was Caroline's Tavern last inspected?
Caroline's Tavern has 7 inspections on record going back to October 11, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 4, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| May 20, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 16, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 11, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 1, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 5, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 11, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Caroline's Tavern vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 31% 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 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.