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Hmart Meat/Seafood
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedDecember 22, 2025
- address951 Nw Ballard Way, Seattle 98107
Is Hmart Meat/Seafood clean?
Hmart Meat/Seafood is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 22, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Hmart Meat/Seafood?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fishcritical1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fish
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Hmart Meat/Seafood last inspected?
Hmart Meat/Seafood has 2 inspections on record going back to July 1, 2025, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 22, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| July 1, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Hmart Meat/Seafood vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 December 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.