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Taste Of Yemen
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score23 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 9, 2025
- address124 Central Ave N, Kent 98032
Is Taste Of Yemen clean?
Taste Of Yemen is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 9, 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 Taste Of Yemen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️food left unprotected3500 - Employee cleanliness and hygiene
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ⚠️1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contaminationcritical1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contamination
When was Taste Of Yemen last inspected?
Taste Of Yemen has 3 inspections on record going back to April 7, 2025, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 9, 2025 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| September 16, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 2 pts |
Taste Of Yemen vs Kent
Kent runs 78% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 74 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 360 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 October 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.