Sam's Sushi Bar & Grill

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score20 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 18, 2026 →
• address5506 22Nd Ave Nw, Seattle 98107

Is Sam's Sushi Bar & Grill clean?

Sam's Sushi Bar & Grill is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 18, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Sam's Sushi Bar & Grill?

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

• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Sam's Sushi Bar & Grill last inspected?

Sam's Sushi Bar & Grill has 6 inspections on record going back to April 20, 2023, averaging 18 points.

Sam's Sushi Bar & Grill 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 3% 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 March 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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