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Other Coast Cafe, Ballard
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 11, 2026
- address5315 Ballard Ave Nw, Seattle 98107
Is Other Coast Cafe, Ballard clean?
Other Coast Cafe, Ballard is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 11, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Other Coast Cafe, Ballard?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️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
When was Other Coast Cafe, Ballard last inspected?
Other Coast Cafe, Ballard has 9 inspections on record going back to February 16, 2021, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| March 3, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 21, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 24, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| April 3, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 28, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 28, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| February 16, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Other Coast Cafe, Ballard vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.