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Lumber Yard Bar
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score18 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 16, 2025
- address9630 16Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98106
Is Lumber Yard Bar clean?
Lumber Yard Bar is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 16, 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 Lumber Yard Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ⚠️4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Lumber Yard Bar last inspected?
Lumber Yard Bar has 3 inspections on record going back to November 2, 2023, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 16, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 18 pts |
| August 15, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 2, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Lumber Yard Bar vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 September 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.