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Lake Forest Bar & Grill
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 25, 2026
- address17535 Ballinger Way Ne, Lake Forest Park 98155
Is Lake Forest Bar & Grill clean?
Lake Forest Bar & Grill is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 25, 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 Lake Forest Bar & Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 25, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Lake Forest Bar & Grill last inspected?
Lake Forest Bar & Grill has 8 inspections on record going back to February 22, 2021, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 25, 2026 | Rated Good | 13 pts |
| May 13, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| April 1, 2024 | Rated Good | 7 pts |
| June 5, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| January 3, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| December 14, 2022 | Rated Good | 50 pts |
| January 10, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 22, 2021 | Rated Good | 3 pts |
Lake Forest Bar & Grill vs Kenmore
Kenmore runs 91% clean across 99 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 8 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 99 spots Cooked tracks in Kenmore, this one comes out cleaner than 18% of them.
Other spots in Kenmore
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 March 25, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.