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 trailcritical
  1100 - 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.

Press Club (Press Level) 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 12% 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 April 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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