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Portage Bay Cafe
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 26, 2026
- address4727 42Nd Ave Sw, Seattle 98116
Is Portage Bay Cafe clean?
Portage Bay Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 26, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. 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 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
When was Portage Bay Cafe last inspected?
Portage Bay Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to August 5, 2024, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 26, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| July 17, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| August 5, 2024 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
Portage Bay Cafe vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 March 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.