Portage Bay Cafe

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score14 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 23, 2026 →
• address371 Terry Ave N, Seattle 98109

Is Portage Bay Cafe clean?

Portage Bay Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 23, 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 July 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used

When was Portage Bay Cafe last inspected?

Portage Bay Cafe has 8 inspections on record going back to April 9, 2021, averaging 11 points.

Portage Bay Cafe vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,737 tracked restaurants — 1,581 clean, 148 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,737 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 July 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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