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Queer Bar
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 21, 2026
- address1518 11Th Ave, Seattle 98122
Is Queer Bar clean?
Queer Bar is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 21, 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 Queer Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Queer Bar last inspected?
Queer Bar has 5 inspections on record going back to June 11, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| May 22, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
| August 17, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| June 11, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Queer Bar vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 May 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.