Central Tavern

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score18 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 8, 2026 →
• address124 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland 98033

Is Central Tavern clean?

Central Tavern is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Central Tavern?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized

When was Central Tavern last inspected?

Central Tavern has 6 inspections on record going back to March 10, 2022, averaging 9 points.

Central Tavern vs Kirkland

Kirkland runs 96% clean across 342 tracked restaurants — 327 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 342 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 April 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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