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Habanero Bar & Grill
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 16, 2025
- address14830 1St Ave S, Burien 98168
Is Habanero Bar & Grill clean?
Habanero Bar & Grill is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 16, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Habanero Bar & Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fishcritical1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fish
When was Habanero Bar & Grill last inspected?
Habanero Bar & Grill has 7 inspections on record going back to May 27, 2021, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 16, 2025 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| December 16, 2024 | Rated Okay | 17 pts |
| February 27, 2024 | Rated Okay | 27 pts |
| April 6, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | Rated Okay | 50 pts |
| August 9, 2022 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
| May 27, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Habanero Bar & Grill vs Burien
Burien runs 89% clean across 256 tracked restaurants — 190 clean, 22 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 256 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, this one comes out cleaner than 6% of them.
Other spots in Burien
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 September 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.