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Ivar's Seafood Bar #34
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedFebruary 5, 2026
- address1201 Lake Washington Blvd, Renton 98056
Is Ivar's Seafood Bar #34 clean?
Ivar's Seafood Bar #34 is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 5, 2026. 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 Ivar's Seafood Bar #34?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Ivar's Seafood Bar #34 last inspected?
Ivar's Seafood Bar #34 has 9 inspections on record going back to June 3, 2021, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 5, 2026 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| March 13, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 23, 2024 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| December 12, 2023 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 19, 2023 | Rated Good | 3 pts |
| August 5, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| July 27, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| July 12, 2022 | Rated Good | 45 pts |
| June 3, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Ivar's Seafood Bar #34 vs Renton
Renton runs 91% clean across 475 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 42 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 475 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 February 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.