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The Box Bar
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 11, 2025
- address5401 California Ave Sw, Seattle 98136
Is The Box Bar clean?
The Box Bar is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 11, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Box Bar?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 11, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was The Box Bar last inspected?
The Box Bar has 4 inspections on record going back to November 10, 2021, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 11, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 30, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 24, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 10, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
The Box Bar vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 44% 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 March 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.