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Columbia City Bakery
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 17, 2025
- address4865 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Columbia City Bakery clean?
Columbia City Bakery is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 17, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Columbia City Bakery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3600 - Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use3600 - Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
When was Columbia City Bakery last inspected?
Columbia City Bakery has 9 inspections on record going back to August 5, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| March 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 24, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 31, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| September 27, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 27, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 23, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 10, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 5, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Columbia City Bakery vs Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill runs 93% clean across 240 tracked restaurants — 222 clean, 16 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 240 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.