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Pho Tai
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score7 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 8, 2026
- address31513 Pacific Hwy S, Federal Way 98003
Is Pho Tai clean?
Pho Tai is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pho Tai?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
When was Pho Tai last inspected?
Pho Tai has 14 inspections on record going back to April 29, 2021, averaging 7 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 8, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 7 pts |
| February 19, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 4, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 13, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| August 20, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 5, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| February 1, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| August 2, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 26, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 1, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Pho Tai vs Federal Way
Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 453 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, 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 June 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.