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Cafe Elite
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 21, 2026
- address14846 1St Ave S, Burien 98168
Is Cafe Elite clean?
Cafe Elite is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 21, 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 Cafe Elite?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Cafe Elite last inspected?
Cafe Elite has 6 inspections on record going back to May 25, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 21, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| January 13, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 9, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 1, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| May 25, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Cafe Elite vs Burien
Burien runs 88% clean across 256 tracked restaurants — 225 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 256 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, this one comes out cleaner than 25% 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 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.