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Yard Cafe, The
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 15, 2026
- address8313 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle 98103
Is Yard Cafe, The clean?
Yard Cafe, The is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 15, 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 Yard Cafe, The?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetablescritical0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetables
When was Yard Cafe, The last inspected?
Yard Cafe, The has 7 inspections on record going back to July 19, 2022, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 15, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| July 11, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 23, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 16, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 3, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| September 28, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| July 19, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
Yard Cafe, The vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 January 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.