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Lark - Bitter/Raw
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 7, 2026
- address952 E Seneca St, Seattle 98122
Is Lark - Bitter/Raw clean?
Lark - Bitter/Raw is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lark - Bitter/Raw?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 7, 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
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
When was Lark - Bitter/Raw last inspected?
Lark - Bitter/Raw has 6 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| May 13, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 20, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 1, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| August 19, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| May 6, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Lark - Bitter/Raw vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 May 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.