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Sonora Steak
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score33 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 14, 2025
- address23846 Se Kent Kangley Rd, #E-11, Maple Valley 98038
Is Sonora Steak clean?
Sonora Steak is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 14, 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 Sonora Steak?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 14, 2025, 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
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical1600 - Proper cooling procedure
When was Sonora Steak last inspected?
Sonora Steak has 4 inspections on record going back to December 13, 2023, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 14, 2025 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| December 6, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| May 30, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| December 13, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Sonora Steak vs Maple Valley
Maple Valley runs 85% clean across 93 tracked restaurants — 79 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 93 spots Cooked tracks in Maple Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 August 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.