Mean Sandwich is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 21, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 21, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
Mean Sandwich has 1 inspection on record going back to April 21, 2026, averaging 0 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 21, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants β 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 42% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.