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Chinook's At Salmon Bay
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 30, 2025
- address1900 W Nickerson St, 102, Seattle 98119
Is Chinook's At Salmon Bay clean?
Chinook's At Salmon Bay is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 30, 2025. 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 Chinook's At Salmon Bay?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Chinook's At Salmon Bay last inspected?
Chinook's At Salmon Bay has 7 inspections on record going back to July 26, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 30, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| March 26, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 16, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 23, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 5, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 11, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 26, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Chinook's At Salmon Bay vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 October 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.