Wise Fool Spirits is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 23, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 23, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
Wise Fool Spirits has 5 inspections on record going back to October 4, 2021, averaging 0 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 23, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 31, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 19, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 10, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 4, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Ballard runs 97% clean across 353 tracked restaurants β 310 clean, 10 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 353 spots Cooked tracks in Ballard, this one comes out cleaner than 42% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.