Sahara Cafe

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score54 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 19, 2026 →
• address13919 Tukwila International Blvd, Tukwila 98168

Is Sahara Cafe clean?

Sahara Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 19, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Sahara Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ⚠️1800 - Proper cooking time and temperature; proper use of noncontinuous cookingcritical
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Sahara Cafe last inspected?

Sahara Cafe has 6 inspections on record going back to August 31, 2021, averaging 23 points.

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

Sahara Cafe vs Tukwila

Tukwila runs 89% clean across 304 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 30 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 304 spots Cooked tracks in Tukwila, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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 October 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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