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Liberty Bar
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score18 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 25, 2025
- address517 15Th Ave E, Seattle 98112
Is Liberty Bar clean?
Liberty Bar is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 25, 2025. 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 Liberty Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
When was Liberty Bar last inspected?
Liberty Bar has 7 inspections on record going back to March 29, 2021, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 25, 2025 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| January 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| September 24, 2024 | Rated Good | 26 pts |
| April 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 26 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | Rated Good | 26 pts |
| May 27, 2022 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| March 29, 2021 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
Liberty Bar vs Cascade
Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 273 clean, 38 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, 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 August 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.