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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 food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 18, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| April 8, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| December 31, 2024 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| August 27, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 29, 2022 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| April 27, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| February 5, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Otter Bar & Burger vs Cascade
Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 273 clean, 38 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 September 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.