Chinook's At Salmon Bay

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score25 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 17, 2026 →
• address1900 W Nickerson St, 102, Seattle 98119

Is Chinook's At Salmon Bay clean?

Chinook's At Salmon Bay is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 17, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — 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 September 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fishcritical
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Chinook's At Salmon Bay last inspected?

Chinook's At Salmon Bay has 8 inspections on record going back to July 26, 2021, averaging 8 points.

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Chinook's At Salmon Bay vs Ballard

Ballard runs 93% clean across 356 tracked restaurants — 331 clean, 24 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 356 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 September 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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