Cooked?Ishtar
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 5, 2026 →
- address421 Central Ave S, Kent 98032
Is Ishtar clean?
Ishtar is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 5, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ishtar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 5, 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))
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Ishtar last inspected?
Ishtar has 1 inspection on record going back to January 5, 2026, averaging 15 points.
January 5, 2026 Good
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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 20% 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 January 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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