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Vulpine Taproom
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 17, 2026
- address17171 Bothell Way Ne, A015, Lake Forest Park 98155
Is Vulpine Taproom clean?
Vulpine Taproom is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 17, 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 Vulpine Taproom?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Vulpine Taproom last inspected?
Vulpine Taproom has 6 inspections on record going back to April 29, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 17, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| July 23, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 19, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 11, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 29, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Vulpine Taproom vs Kenmore
Kenmore runs 91% clean across 99 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 8 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 99 spots Cooked tracks in Kenmore, this one comes out cleaner than 20% of them.
Other spots in Kenmore
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 March 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.