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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.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
- ⚠️1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contaminationcritical1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contamination
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Best Meats last inspected?
Best Meats has 2 inspections on record going back to September 10, 2025, averaging 60 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 20, 2026 | Rated Okay | 73 pts |
| September 10, 2025 | Rated Okay | 46 pts |
Best Meats vs Kent
Kent runs 77% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 220 clean, 60 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 360 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.
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.