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 controlled
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
• ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical

When was Little Water Cantina last inspected?

Little Water Cantina has 7 inspections on record going back to June 1, 2021, averaging 10 points.

Little Water Cantina vs Cascade

Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 40 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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