• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score30 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 24, 2026 →
• address12966 Se Kent Kangley Rd, Kent 98030

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Is Sweet Notes Cafe clean?

Sweet Notes Cafe is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 24, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Sweet Notes Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ⚠️5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical

When was Sweet Notes Cafe last inspected?

Sweet Notes Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to August 19, 2021, averaging 21 points.

Sweet Notes Cafe vs Covington

Covington runs 85% clean across 177 tracked restaurants — 150 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 177 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, 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.

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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 February 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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