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 cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Northwest Tasting last inspected?

Northwest Tasting has 4 inspections on record going back to February 23, 2023, averaging 14 points.

Northwest Tasting vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,737 tracked restaurants — 1,581 clean, 148 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,737 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.

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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 May 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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