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Northwest Tasting
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score35 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedMay 21, 2026
- address1501 Pike Pl, #527, Seattle 98101
Is Northwest Tasting clean?
Northwest Tasting is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 21, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Northwest Tasting?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️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
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Northwest Tasting last inspected?
Northwest Tasting has 4 inspections on record going back to February 23, 2023, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | Rated Okay | 35 pts |
| March 25, 2025 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| February 8, 2024 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| February 23, 2023 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
Northwest Tasting vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, 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 May 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.