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Retro Coffee
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score2 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 27, 2025
- address920 5Th Ave, 150, Seattle 98104
Is Retro Coffee clean?
Retro Coffee is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 27, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Retro Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
When was Retro Coffee last inspected?
Retro Coffee has 6 inspections on record going back to February 7, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
| June 20, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 30, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
| February 11, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 9, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 7, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Retro Coffee 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 31% 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 January 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.