Hounds Tooth Public House

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score23 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedDecember 5, 2025 →
• address8551 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle 98103

Is Hounds Tooth Public House clean?

Hounds Tooth Public House is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 5, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Hounds Tooth Public House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria

When was Hounds Tooth Public House last inspected?

Hounds Tooth Public House has 7 inspections on record going back to December 14, 2021, averaging 7 points.

Hounds Tooth Public House vs Northgate

Northgate runs 94% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 311 clean, 20 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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