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Ban Somtum Healthy Thai Bistro
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 8, 2025
- address35109 Pacific Hwy S, Federal Way 98003
Is Ban Somtum Healthy Thai Bistro clean?
Ban Somtum Healthy Thai Bistro is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 8, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ban Somtum Healthy Thai Bistro?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Ban Somtum Healthy Thai Bistro last inspected?
Ban Somtum Healthy Thai Bistro has 10 inspections on record going back to March 30, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 8, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| February 19, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 11 pts |
| March 6, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| October 18, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 16 pts |
| February 7, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 7, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| February 22, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 2, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 30, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Ban Somtum Healthy Thai Bistro vs Federal Way
Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 453 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 October 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.