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Ugly Mug Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 7, 2025
- address1309 Ne 43Rd St, Seattle 98105
Is Ugly Mug Cafe clean?
Ugly Mug Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ugly Mug Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 7, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Ugly Mug Cafe last inspected?
Ugly Mug Cafe has 9 inspections on record going back to September 13, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 7, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
| September 19, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
| March 1, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
| May 11, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| August 4, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 14, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| June 9, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 40 pts |
| September 13, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
Ugly Mug Cafe vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 48% 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 October 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.