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Sano Cafe
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 7, 2025
- address7605 Se 27Th St, #111, Mercer Island 98040
Is Sano Cafe clean?
Sano Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 7, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Sano Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ⚠️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
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
When was Sano Cafe last inspected?
Sano Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to June 23, 2021, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| June 7, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| February 21, 2024 | Rated Good | 13 pts |
| October 25, 2023 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| March 7, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 7, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| June 23, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Sano Cafe vs Mercer Island
Mercer Island runs 94% clean across 127 tracked restaurants — 119 clean, 7 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 127 spots Cooked tracks in Mercer Island, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.
Other spots in Mercer Island
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 August 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.