Cafe Elite

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 7, 2026 →
• address24530 Russel Rd S, Kent 98032

Is Cafe Elite clean?

Cafe Elite is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cafe Elite?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration

When was Cafe Elite last inspected?

Cafe Elite has 6 inspections on record going back to May 19, 2021, averaging 3 points.

Cafe Elite 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 38% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 May 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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