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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 enoughcritical2120 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 8, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| February 11, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 14, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 22, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 27, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Cafe Red vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 36% of them.
Other spots in Rainier Valley
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 August 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.