Salmon Bay Cafe

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 29, 2026 →
• address5109 Shilshole Ave Nw, Seattle 98107

Is Salmon Bay Cafe clean?

Salmon Bay Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 29, 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 Salmon Bay Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used

When was Salmon Bay Cafe last inspected?

Salmon Bay Cafe has 9 inspections on record going back to January 11, 2022, averaging 16 points.

Salmon Bay Cafe vs Ballard

Ballard runs 95% clean across 354 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 19 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 354 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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