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Mc Gilvra's Bar & Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 19, 2026
- address4234 E Madison St, Seattle 98112
Is Mc Gilvra's Bar & Restaurant clean?
Mc Gilvra's Bar & Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 19, 2026. 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 Mc Gilvra's Bar & Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Mc Gilvra's Bar & Restaurant last inspected?
Mc Gilvra's Bar & Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to May 14, 2021, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| September 23, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 29, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| September 12, 2024 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| February 12, 2024 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| January 17, 2023 | Rated Good | 28 pts |
| May 14, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Mc Gilvra's Bar & Restaurant vs Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill runs 92% clean across 62 tracked restaurants — 57 clean, 5 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 62 spots Cooked tracks in Capitol Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 May 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.