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Wild Cumin
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 12, 2026
- address18230 East Valley Hwy, 126, Kent 98032
Is Wild Cumin clean?
Wild Cumin is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 12, 2026. 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 Wild Cumin?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Wild Cumin last inspected?
Wild Cumin has 4 inspections on record going back to October 11, 2024, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2026 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| November 21, 2025 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| April 15, 2025 | Rated Good | 2 pts |
| October 11, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
Wild Cumin vs Tukwila
Tukwila runs 89% clean across 296 tracked restaurants — 264 clean, 30 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 296 spots Cooked tracks in Tukwila, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 May 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.