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Taproot Cafe & Bar
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 17, 2026
- address4908-A Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Taproot Cafe & Bar clean?
Taproot Cafe & Bar is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 17, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Taproot Cafe & Bar?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 17, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Taproot Cafe & Bar last inspected?
Taproot Cafe & Bar has 10 inspections on record going back to August 4, 2021, averaging 0 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 17, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 5, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 6, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 24, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 14, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 8, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 19, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 22, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 4, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Taproot Cafe & Bar vs Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill runs 93% clean across 240 tracked restaurants — 222 clean, 16 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 240 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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 June 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.