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Blk Pepper
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 3, 2026
- address10836 E Marginal Way S, Tukwila 98168
Is Blk Pepper clean?
Blk Pepper is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 3, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Blk Pepper?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Blk Pepper last inspected?
Blk Pepper has 4 inspections on record going back to September 26, 2023, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 3, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 23, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 30, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Blk Pepper vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 April 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.