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Little Water Cantina
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedDecember 5, 2025
- address2865 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle 98102
Is Little Water Cantina clean?
Little Water Cantina is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 5, 2025. 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 Little Water Cantina?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 5, 2025, 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
- ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Little Water Cantina last inspected?
Little Water Cantina has 7 inspections on record going back to June 1, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 5, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| April 8, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 31, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 27, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 23, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| August 22, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 44 pts |
| June 1, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Little Water Cantina 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 9% 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 December 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.