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Umami Ballard Llc
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score18 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 16, 2026
- address6421 15Th Ave Nw, B, Seattle 98107
Is Umami Ballard Llc clean?
Umami Ballard Llc is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 16, 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 Umami Ballard Llc?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Umami Ballard Llc last inspected?
Umami Ballard Llc has 8 inspections on record going back to August 2, 2022, averaging 22 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 16, 2026 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| August 4, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| February 18, 2025 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| September 9, 2024 | Rated Good | 16 pts |
| April 8, 2024 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| August 2, 2023 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| February 6, 2023 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| August 2, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Umami Ballard Llc 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 5% 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 April 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.