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-connections
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical
  1600 - 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.

Sonora Steak vs Maple Valley

Maple Valley runs 87% clean across 93 tracked restaurants — 81 clean, 12 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 93 spots Cooked tracks in Maple Valley, 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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