• last posted ratingRated Needs To Improve · May 11, 2025
• inspection score35 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedApril 10, 2026 →
• address1250 1St Ave S, Seattle 98134

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Is Ivar's Seafood & Chowder (335) clean?

Ivar's Seafood & Chowder (335) is currently listed as closed by Public Health — Seattle & King County, as of its inspection on April 10, 2026. That inspection scored 35 points and cited 2 critical violations. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected. The last rating the city posted here was Needs To Improve on May 11, 2025, before the closure.

What did inspectors find at Ivar's Seafood & Chowder (335)?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 10, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  0400 - Hands washed as required
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Ivar's Seafood & Chowder (335) last inspected?

Ivar's Seafood & Chowder (335) has 9 inspections on record going back to April 7, 2021, averaging 5 points.

Ivar's Seafood & Chowder (335) vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,737 tracked restaurants — 1,581 clean, 148 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,737 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 April 10, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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