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Nine Pound Hammer
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 15, 2025
- address6009 Airport Way S, Seattle 98108
Is Nine Pound Hammer clean?
Nine Pound Hammer is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 15, 2025. 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 Nine Pound Hammer?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Nine Pound Hammer last inspected?
Nine Pound Hammer has 7 inspections on record going back to June 24, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| October 18, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 4, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| April 4, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 29, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 10, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| June 24, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Nine Pound Hammer vs Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill runs 93% clean across 240 tracked restaurants — 222 clean, 16 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 240 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 September 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.