Poverty Bay Cafe

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 21, 2026 →
• address1108 S 322Nd Pl, #A, Federal Way 98003

Is Poverty Bay Cafe clean?

Poverty Bay Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 21, 2026. 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 Poverty Bay Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 21, 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
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Poverty Bay Cafe last inspected?

Poverty Bay Cafe has 8 inspections on record going back to June 8, 2023, averaging 5 points.

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

Poverty Bay Cafe vs Federal Way

Federal Way runs 93% clean across 500 tracked restaurants — 467 clean, 31 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 500 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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