Jay's Cafe

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score33 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 18, 2025 →
• address7520 Ne Bothell Way, Kenmore 98028

Is Jay's Cafe clean?

Jay's Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 18, 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 Jay's Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical

When was Jay's Cafe last inspected?

Jay's Cafe has 6 inspections on record going back to April 21, 2021, averaging 16 points.

Jay's Cafe vs Kenmore

Kenmore runs 90% clean across 100 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 8 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 100 spots Cooked tracks in Kenmore, 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 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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