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Pho Bac Restaurant
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 14, 2026
- address1314 S Jackson St, Seattle 98144
Is Pho Bac Restaurant clean?
Pho Bac Restaurant is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 14, 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 Pho Bac Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Pho Bac Restaurant last inspected?
Pho Bac Restaurant has 10 inspections on record going back to November 17, 2022, averaging 18 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 14, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| June 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 12, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 19, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| May 16, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 58 pts |
| July 28, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 53 pts |
| January 5, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 17, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 35 pts |
Pho Bac Restaurant vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 April 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.