Subtle Approach Catering

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 19, 2026
• address10836 E Marginal Way S, Tukwila 98168

Is Subtle Approach Catering clean?

Subtle Approach Catering is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 19, 2026. 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 Subtle Approach Catering?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria

When was Subtle Approach Catering last inspected?

Subtle Approach Catering has 4 inspections on record going back to April 14, 2023, averaging 3 points.

Subtle Approach Catering vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 March 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.