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Sunset Alehouse
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 4, 2025
- address20 Front St S, Issaquah 98027
Is Sunset Alehouse clean?
Sunset Alehouse is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 4, 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 Sunset Alehouse?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Sunset Alehouse last inspected?
Sunset Alehouse has 6 inspections on record going back to June 22, 2021, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 4, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| October 9, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 7, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| July 31, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 13, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 30 pts |
| June 22, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
Sunset Alehouse vs Issaquah
Issaquah runs 95% clean across 242 tracked restaurants — 229 clean, 13 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 242 spots Cooked tracks in Issaquah, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 November 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.