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Top Dead Center Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 23, 2026
- address7701 Aurora Ave N, Seattle 98103
Is Top Dead Center Cafe clean?
Top Dead Center Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 23, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Top Dead Center Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was Top Dead Center Cafe last inspected?
Top Dead Center Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to May 29, 2025, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 23, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| September 18, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 29, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Top Dead Center Cafe vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.