Portage Bay Cafe

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 27, 2026 →
• address4130 Roosevelt Way Ne, Seattle 98105

Is Portage Bay Cafe clean?

Portage Bay Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 27, 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 Portage Bay Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Portage Bay Cafe last inspected?

Portage Bay Cafe has 8 inspections on record going back to September 16, 2021, averaging 6 points.

Portage Bay Cafe vs University District

University District runs 88% clean across 331 tracked restaurants — 290 clean, 40 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 331 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 March 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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