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Café 43
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 27, 2025
- address15580 Ne 31St St, Redmond 98052
Is Café 43 clean?
Café 43 is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 27, 2025. 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 Café 43?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Café 43 last inspected?
Café 43 has 4 inspections on record going back to December 7, 2022, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 2, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 25, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| December 7, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Café 43 vs Redmond
Redmond runs 90% clean across 489 tracked restaurants — 441 clean, 46 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 489 spots Cooked tracks in Redmond, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 February 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.