Cooked?The Birdhouse
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedNovember 14, 2025 →
- address3509 Sw Henderson St, Seattle 98126
Is The Birdhouse clean?
The Birdhouse is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 14, 2025. 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 The Birdhouse?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was The Birdhouse last inspected?
The Birdhouse has 4 inspections on record going back to September 29, 2021, averaging 11 points.
November 14, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →July 2, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →March 15, 2023 Good
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View full inspection →September 29, 2021 Good
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View full inspection →The Birdhouse vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 195 clean, 35 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 November 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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