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Owl N Thistle
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJuly 21, 2025
- address808 Post Ave, Seattle 98104
Is Owl N Thistle clean?
Owl N Thistle is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 21, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Owl N Thistle?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- ⚠️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
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Owl N Thistle last inspected?
Owl N Thistle has 6 inspections on record going back to June 29, 2021, averaging 16 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 21, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| January 2, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| March 22, 2024 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| April 27, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 11, 2022 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| June 29, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Owl N Thistle vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 July 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.