Ambaum Food Mart

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score38 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 9, 2025 →
• address12609 Ambaum Blvd Sw, Burien 98146

Is Ambaum Food Mart clean?

Ambaum Food Mart is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 9, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Ambaum Food Mart?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical

When was Ambaum Food Mart last inspected?

Ambaum Food Mart has 8 inspections on record going back to November 23, 2021, averaging 23 points.

Ambaum Food Mart vs Burien

Burien runs 89% clean across 258 tracked restaurants — 230 clean, 27 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 258 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated September 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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