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Zola's Cafe
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score2 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 22, 2026
- address402 E Main St, 102, Auburn 98002
Is Zola's Cafe clean?
Zola's Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Zola's Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
When was Zola's Cafe last inspected?
Zola's Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to July 13, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2026 | Rated Good | 2 pts |
| January 3, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 25, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 11, 2024 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| February 28, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 8, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| July 13, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Zola's Cafe vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.