J Cafe

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 28, 2025 →
• address3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island 98040

Is J Cafe clean?

J Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 28, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at J Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used

When was J Cafe last inspected?

J Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to October 12, 2021, averaging 5 points.

J Cafe vs Mercer Island

Mercer Island runs 94% clean across 129 tracked restaurants — 121 clean, 7 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 129 spots Cooked tracks in Mercer Island, 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 July 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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