Mount & Bao

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 8, 2026 →
• address12534 Lake City Way Ne, 2, Seattle 98125

Is Mount & Bao clean?

Mount & Bao is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 8, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Mount & Bao?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Mount & Bao last inspected?

Mount & Bao has 9 inspections on record going back to September 2, 2021, averaging 22 points.

Mount & Bao vs Lake City

Lake City runs 93% clean across 81 tracked restaurants — 75 clean, 6 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 81 spots Cooked tracks in Lake City, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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