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Tavolata
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedJuly 16, 2025
- address2323 2Nd Ave, Seattle 98121
Is Tavolata clean?
Tavolata is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 16, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tavolata?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
- ⚠️2700 - Compliance with variance; specialized processes; HACCP plancritical2700 - Compliance with variance; specialized processes; HACCP plan
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Tavolata last inspected?
Tavolata has 3 inspections on record going back to January 11, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 16, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| March 9, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 11, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Tavolata vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 July 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.