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Sweet Notes Cafe
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 24, 2026
- address12966 Se Kent Kangley Rd, Kent 98030
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.
- ⚠️5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Sweet Notes Cafe last inspected?
Sweet Notes Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to August 19, 2021, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 24, 2026 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| January 30, 2024 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| April 25, 2022 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| August 19, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Sweet Notes Cafe vs Covington
Covington runs 85% clean across 175 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 175 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 February 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.