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Hitchin Post Saloon
- ratingRated Needs To Improve
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 15, 2026
- address2215 Sw 356Th St, Federal Way 98023
Is Hitchin Post Saloon clean?
Hitchin Post Saloon is currently Rated Needs To Improve from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 15, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Hitchin Post Saloon?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Hitchin Post Saloon last inspected?
Hitchin Post Saloon has 11 inspections on record going back to October 19, 2021, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 15, 2026 | Rated Needs To Improve | 10 pts |
| June 3, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 20 pts |
| March 24, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| March 11, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 20 pts |
| February 27, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 40 pts |
| November 15, 2024 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| January 23, 2024 | Rated Needs To Improve | 15 pts |
| April 25, 2023 | Rated Needs To Improve | 5 pts |
| September 29, 2022 | Rated Needs To Improve | 31 pts |
| March 30, 2022 | Rated Needs To Improve | 8 pts |
| October 19, 2021 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
Hitchin Post Saloon vs Federal Way
Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 453 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.