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Renton Countryside Cafe
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score28 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedFebruary 27, 2026
- address4004 Ne 4Th St, 101, Renton 98056
Is Renton Countryside Cafe clean?
Renton Countryside Cafe is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 27, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Renton Countryside Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Renton Countryside Cafe last inspected?
Renton Countryside Cafe has 8 inspections on record going back to February 18, 2022, averaging 30 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 27, 2026 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
| March 19, 2025 | Rated Okay | 18 pts |
| November 22, 2024 | Rated Okay | 23 pts |
| January 25, 2024 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| October 16, 2023 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| November 4, 2022 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| October 21, 2022 | Rated Okay | 62 pts |
| February 18, 2022 | Rated Okay | 17 pts |
Renton Countryside Cafe vs Renton
Renton runs 91% clean across 475 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 42 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 475 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 February 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.