Friendship Bbq Restaurant

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 29, 2026
• address13520 Aurora Ave N, Seattle 98133

Is Friendship Bbq Restaurant clean?

Friendship Bbq Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 29, 2026. 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 Friendship Bbq Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Friendship Bbq Restaurant last inspected?

Friendship Bbq Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to July 11, 2025, averaging 13 points.

Friendship Bbq Restaurant 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 11% 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 January 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.