Sambica

• inspection score28 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 12, 2024
• address4114 W Lake Sammamish Pkwy Se, Bellevue 98008

Is Sambica clean?

Sambica is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 12, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Sambica?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 12, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical
  1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Sambica last inspected?

Sambica has 3 inspections on record going back to August 22, 2022, averaging 13 points.

Sambica vs Newcastle

Newcastle runs 89% clean across 153 tracked restaurants — 136 clean, 17 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 153 spots Cooked tracks in Newcastle, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 December 12, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.