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Cafe Elite #21
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score14 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 7, 2026
- address1045 S 320Th St, Federal Way 98003
Is Cafe Elite #21 clean?
Cafe Elite #21 is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 7, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Elite #21?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
When was Cafe Elite #21 last inspected?
Cafe Elite #21 has 7 inspections on record going back to November 18, 2021, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 7, 2026 | Rated Okay | 14 pts |
| October 1, 2025 | Rated Okay | 22 pts |
| March 24, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 20, 2024 | Rated Okay | 13 pts |
| February 21, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| February 9, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| November 18, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Cafe Elite #21 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 7% of them.
Other spots in Federal Way
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 July 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.