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Press Club (Press Level)
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 1, 2026
- address1250 1St Ave S, Seattle 98134
Is Press Club (Press Level) clean?
Press Club (Press Level) is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 1, 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 Press Club (Press Level)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Press Club (Press Level) last inspected?
Press Club (Press Level) has 7 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2023, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 1, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| June 18, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 11, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| September 29, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| July 11, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| May 6, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Press Club (Press Level) vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 April 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.