Pho Bac Cafe

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score8 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 28, 2026 →
• address18119 E Valley Hwy S, #102, Kent 98032

Is Pho Bac Cafe clean?

Pho Bac Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 28, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Pho Bac Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 28, 2026, 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
• ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used

When was Pho Bac Cafe last inspected?

Pho Bac Cafe has 11 inspections on record going back to April 19, 2021, averaging 14 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Pho Bac Cafe vs Renton

Renton runs 92% clean across 490 tracked restaurants — 450 clean, 37 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 490 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, 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 September 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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