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 cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical

When was Vulpine Taproom last inspected?

Vulpine Taproom has 6 inspections on record going back to April 29, 2021, averaging 2 points.

Vulpine Taproom vs Kenmore

Kenmore runs 90% clean across 100 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 8 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 100 spots Cooked tracks in Kenmore, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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