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Lock & Keel
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 19, 2026
- address5144 Ballard Ave Nw, Seattle 98107
Is Lock & Keel clean?
Lock & Keel is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 19, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lock & Keel?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
When was Lock & Keel last inspected?
Lock & Keel has 8 inspections on record going back to May 13, 2022, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 19, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| August 11, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| January 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| August 26, 2024 | Rated Good | 40 pts |
| March 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| July 19, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 31, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 13, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Lock & Keel vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 February 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.