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Ivar's Salmon House Restaurant
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 18, 2026
- address401 Ne Northlake Way, Seattle 98105
Is Ivar's Salmon House Restaurant clean?
Ivar's Salmon House Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 18, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ivar's Salmon House Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Ivar's Salmon House Restaurant last inspected?
Ivar's Salmon House Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to December 9, 2021, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 18, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| September 10, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| March 21, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| June 21, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 16 pts |
| June 7, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| June 16, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| December 9, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
Ivar's Salmon House Restaurant vs North Central
North Central runs 97% clean across 216 tracked restaurants — 210 clean, 6 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 216 spots Cooked tracks in North Central, 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.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated June 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.