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Sahara Pizza
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 7, 2025
- address8425 Se 68Th St, #104, Mercer Island 98040
Is Sahara Pizza clean?
Sahara Pizza is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Sahara Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Sahara Pizza last inspected?
Sahara Pizza has 5 inspections on record going back to August 5, 2022, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 7, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 11, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| October 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 29, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| August 5, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Sahara Pizza vs Seward Park
Seward Park runs 91% clean across 33 tracked restaurants — 30 clean, 3 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 33 spots Cooked tracks in Seward Park, this one comes out cleaner than 18% 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 October 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.