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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.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Jay's Cafe last inspected?
Jay's Cafe has 6 inspections on record going back to April 21, 2021, averaging 16 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 18, 2025 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| March 13, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| October 18, 2023 | Rated Good | 28 pts |
| January 4, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| January 20, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| April 21, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Jay's Cafe vs Kenmore
Kenmore runs 91% clean across 99 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 8 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 99 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.
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.