Cafe Red

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 8, 2025 →
• address7148 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118

Is Cafe Red clean?

Cafe Red is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 8, 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 Cafe Red?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Cafe Red last inspected?

Cafe Red has 5 inspections on record going back to April 27, 2022, averaging 2 points.

Cafe Red vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 79% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 46 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 37% 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 August 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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