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Hot Cakes
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 7, 2026
- address5427 Ballard Ave Nw, Seattle 98107
Is Hot Cakes clean?
Hot Cakes is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Hot Cakes?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 7, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Hot Cakes last inspected?
Hot Cakes has 8 inspections on record going back to February 1, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 13, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| September 19, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 1, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 17, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| May 11, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 1, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
Hot Cakes 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 42% 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 May 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.