Cooked?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.
March 26, 2026 Good
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View full inspection →July 17, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →August 5, 2024 Good
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View full inspection →Portage Bay Cafe vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 92% clean across 227 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 227 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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