Best Meats

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score73 pts
• critical violations6
• last inspectedJanuary 20, 2026 →
• address10120 Se 260Th St, 106, Kent 98030

Is Best Meats clean?

Best Meats is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 20, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 6 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Best Meats?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
• ⚠️1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contaminationcritical
• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained

When was Best Meats last inspected?

Best Meats has 2 inspections on record going back to September 10, 2025, averaging 60 points.

Best Meats vs Kent

Kent runs 78% clean across 365 tracked restaurants — 283 clean, 77 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 365 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 January 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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