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Matador Ballard
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 15, 2026
- address5410 Ballard Ave Nw, Seattle 98107
Is Matador Ballard clean?
Matador Ballard is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 15, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Matador Ballard?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
When was Matador Ballard last inspected?
Matador Ballard has 9 inspections on record going back to November 18, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 15, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| August 11, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 3, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| August 21, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 13, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| July 6, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 14, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 3, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 18, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Matador Ballard 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 April 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.