Cooked?Pioneer Square Coffee Bar
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The current published rating reads clean. Keep its inspection date in view.
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 16, 2026 →
- address79 Yesler Way, Seattle 98104
Is Pioneer Square Coffee Bar clean?
Pioneer Square Coffee Bar is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 16, 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 Pioneer Square Coffee Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
When was Pioneer Square Coffee Bar last inspected?
Pioneer Square Coffee Bar has 4 inspections on record going back to August 30, 2022, averaging 17 points.
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October 16, 2026 Good
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View full inspection →February 14, 2024 Good
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View full inspection →September 15, 2023 Good
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View full inspection →August 30, 2022 Good
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View full inspection →Pioneer Square Coffee Bar vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,783 tracked restaurants — 1,615 clean, 160 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 1,783 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 October 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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