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Tip Top Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 18, 2025
- address400 Broad St, Seattle 98109
Is Tip Top Cafe clean?
Tip Top Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 18, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tip Top Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
When was Tip Top Cafe last inspected?
Tip Top Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to July 7, 2022, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 16, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| December 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 1, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 30, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 7, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Tip Top Cafe 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 20% 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 December 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.