San Fermo is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 15, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 15, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
San Fermo has 8 inspections on record going back to October 12, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 15, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 22, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| October 30, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| May 29, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 15, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| February 16, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 16, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 12, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants β 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 42% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.