Cooked?Pho Lam
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score18 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 18, 2024 →
- address320 E Meeker St, 106, Kent 98030
Is Pho Lam clean?
Pho Lam is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 18, 2024. 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 Pho Lam?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 18, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
When was Pho Lam last inspected?
Pho Lam has 4 inspections on record going back to July 26, 2021, averaging 25 points.
April 18, 2024 Good
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View full inspection →March 28, 2023 Good
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View full inspection →November 17, 2022 Good
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View full inspection →July 26, 2021 Good
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View full inspection →Pho Lam vs Kent
Kent runs 78% clean across 365 tracked restaurants — 283 clean, 77 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 365 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, 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 April 18, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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