Old Ballard Catering Company is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 15, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on July 15, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
Old Ballard Catering Company has 8 inspections on record going back to June 22, 2021, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 15, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 12, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 1, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 11, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 29, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| December 5, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 27, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 22, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants β 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 48% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated July 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.