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Whisky West
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 6, 2025
- address6451 California Ave Sw, Seattle 98136
Is Whisky West clean?
Whisky West is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 6, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Whisky West?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
When was Whisky West last inspected?
Whisky West has 8 inspections on record going back to November 10, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| April 3, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 4, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 1, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| November 30, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 8, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 8, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 10, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Whisky West vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 November 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.