Cooked?Sunset Cafe & Deli
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score40 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedDecember 11, 2025 →
- address8115 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Sunset Cafe & Deli clean?
Sunset Cafe & Deli is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 11, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Sunset Cafe & Deli?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
- ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical
When was Sunset Cafe & Deli last inspected?
Sunset Cafe & Deli has 2 inspections on record going back to August 7, 2025, averaging 25 points.
December 11, 2025 Okay
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View full inspection →Sunset Cafe & Deli vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 79% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 46 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 December 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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