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Mama Sambusa Kitchen
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 24, 2025
- address8319 Wabash Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Mama Sambusa Kitchen clean?
Mama Sambusa Kitchen is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 24, 2025. 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 Mama Sambusa Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycritical2200 - Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Mama Sambusa Kitchen last inspected?
Mama Sambusa Kitchen has 6 inspections on record going back to September 15, 2022, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 24, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 29, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 31, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 17, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 15, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Mama Sambusa Kitchen vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 81% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 151 clean, 34 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 April 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.