Cafe Pogacha

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score111 pts
• critical violations8
• last inspectedNovember 19, 2025 →
• address10885 Ne 4Th St, Bellevue 98004

Is Cafe Pogacha clean?

Cafe Pogacha is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 19, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 8 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cafe Pogacha?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  0400 - Hands washed as required
• ⚠️0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetablescritical
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
• ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean

When was Cafe Pogacha last inspected?

Cafe Pogacha has 4 inspections on record going back to November 2, 2021, averaging 43 points.

Cafe Pogacha vs Bellevue

Bellevue runs 85% clean across 652 tracked restaurants — 556 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 652 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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.

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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 November 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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