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Thunderbird Tavern
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 7, 2026
- address7515 15Th Ave Nw, Seattle 98117
Is Thunderbird Tavern clean?
Thunderbird Tavern is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 7, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Thunderbird Tavern?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
When was Thunderbird Tavern last inspected?
Thunderbird Tavern has 5 inspections on record going back to July 6, 2023, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| July 1, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| January 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| July 10, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| July 6, 2023 | Rated Good | 12 pts |
Thunderbird Tavern vs Ballard
Ballard runs 95% clean across 353 tracked restaurants — 335 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 May 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.