Otter Bar & Burger

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 18, 2025 →
• address2379 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle 98102

Is Otter Bar & Burger clean?

Otter Bar & Burger is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 18, 2025. 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 Otter Bar & Burger?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated

When was Otter Bar & Burger last inspected?

Otter Bar & Burger has 7 inspections on record going back to February 5, 2021, averaging 14 points.

Otter Bar & Burger vs Cascade

Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 40 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 September 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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