Seattle currently lists Iconic Ground Cafe as grade pending, following an inspection on October 31, 2025 that scored 0 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 31, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
Iconic Ground Cafe has 1 inspection on record going back to October 31, 2025, averaging 0 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 32% of them.
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 October 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.