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Samantha's Both Ways Cafe
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJune 18, 2026
- address4922 S Genesee St, Seattle 98118
Is Samantha's Both Ways Cafe clean?
Samantha's Both Ways Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 18, 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 Samantha's Both Ways Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods
- ⚠️1500 - Proper preparation of raw shell eggscritical1500 - Proper preparation of raw shell eggs
When was Samantha's Both Ways Cafe last inspected?
Samantha's Both Ways Cafe has 6 inspections on record going back to September 12, 2023, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 18, 2026 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 2, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| March 20, 2025 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| May 14, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| January 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| September 12, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
Samantha's Both Ways Cafe 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 9% 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 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.