Seattle restaurant health inspections
Seattle tracks 12.3K food establishments. Radius turns those official inspection results into a plain-English answer to “should I eat here?”
How Seattle grades restaurants
King County reports an inspection result rather than a grade: Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory, plus a violation-point score where lower is better and 0 means no violations were found. Red violations are critical food-safety risks; blue ones are maintenance and sanitation issues.
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Look up any SEA restaurant
Search all 12.3K SEA establishments by name — every result opens the full record: grade, violations, and history.
Seattle restaurant inspections — FAQ
- How does Seattle grade restaurants?
- King County reports an inspection result rather than a grade: Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory, plus a violation-point score where lower is better and 0 means no violations were found. Red violations are critical food-safety risks; blue ones are maintenance and sanitation issues.
- Is Seattle restaurant inspection data free on Radius?
- Yes. Looking up any SEA restaurant's inspection grade, violations, and history is free — safety information is never paywalled.
- Where does Seattle restaurant inspection data come from?
- From King County Food Establishment Inspections, the city's official open-data source. Radius normalizes it into plain English and links back to the original record. Radius is not affiliated with the health department.
- How many restaurants does Radius track in Seattle?
- Radius covers roughly 12,261 food establishments across Seattle, Bellevue & King County.