Roam

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 18, 2026
• address5105 Ballard Ave Nw, Seattle 98107

Is Roam clean?

Roam is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 18, 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 Roam?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
  3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Roam last inspected?

Roam has 4 inspections on record going back to October 30, 2024, averaging 7 points.

Roam vs Ballard

Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 March 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.