• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 6, 2026 →
• address1250 1St Ave S, Seattle 98134

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Is Salt & Straw (111) clean?

Salt & Straw (111) is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 6, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Salt & Straw (111)?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Salt & Straw (111) last inspected?

Salt & Straw (111) has 5 inspections on record going back to July 8, 2021, averaging 7 points.

Salt & Straw (111) 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 10% 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 May 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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