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Volunteer Park Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 8, 2025
- address1501 17Th Ave E, Seattle 98112
Is Volunteer Park Cafe clean?
Volunteer Park Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 8, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Volunteer Park Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 8, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Volunteer Park Cafe last inspected?
Volunteer Park Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to October 8, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 8, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 24, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 31, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 19, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 8, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| October 8, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Volunteer Park Cafe vs Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill runs 92% clean across 62 tracked restaurants — 57 clean, 5 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 62 spots Cooked tracks in Capitol Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 56% 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 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.