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Zig Zag Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 12, 2026
- address1501 Western Ave, Seattle 98101
Is Zig Zag Cafe clean?
Zig Zag Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 12, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Zig Zag Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 12, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Zig Zag Cafe last inspected?
Zig Zag Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to January 13, 2022, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 10, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 26, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 6, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 16, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 27, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 13, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 40 pts |
Zig Zag Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 May 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.