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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 sketchycritical1400 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 8, 2026 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| March 12, 2025 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| December 16, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| December 2, 2024 | Rated Okay | 43 pts |
| February 26, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| December 21, 2023 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| February 22, 2023 | Rated Okay | 43 pts |
| May 16, 2022 | Rated Okay | 23 pts |
| September 2, 2021 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
Mount & Bao vs Lake City
Lake City runs 91% clean across 76 tracked restaurants — 69 clean, 7 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 76 spots Cooked tracks in Lake City, this one comes out cleaner than 25% 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 January 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.