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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.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Ambaum Food Mart last inspected?
Ambaum Food Mart has 8 inspections on record going back to November 23, 2021, averaging 23 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 9, 2025 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| December 31, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| December 18, 2024 | Rated Okay | 55 pts |
| April 2, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 15, 2024 | Rated Okay | 43 pts |
| July 6, 2023 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| February 27, 2023 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| November 23, 2021 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
Ambaum Food Mart vs Burien
Burien runs 88% clean across 256 tracked restaurants — 225 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 256 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.
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.