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Joe Brown's Cafe

817 Main ST, VANCOUVER WA 98660 · (360) 693-6375

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Level 3 High · Restaurant

Grade

D

avg 25 pts · better than 13% of Restaurants


Current Score

30 pts
Minor

Most recent: Apr 27, 2026


Red points 30 pts
Blue points 0 pts
County avg 14 pts

Score Trend · All Inspections

County avg (restaurant): 10 to 14

Joe Brown's Cafe currently holds a D-minus grade and scores worse than 86 percent of similar restaurants in the county, placing it well below the middle tier. The facility showed marked improvement in February 2024 with a clean inspection, but has since developed a persistent pattern of temperature control failures and food safety training gaps, with cold holding violations appearing in three of the last four inspections and food worker certification issues recurring in January 2023 and October 2025. The trajectory is downward, as violations have returned and multiplied following the brief clean period, suggesting systemic problems with staff knowledge and equipment management remain unresolved.

Inspection History

Apr 27, 2026

Level 3 High

30
Minor

Oct 20, 2025

Level 3 High

25
Minor
+1 more

Apr 24, 2025

Level 3 High

35
Minor

Feb 8, 2024

Level 3 High

0
Clean

No violations recorded.

Aug 30, 2023

Level 3 High

20
Minor

Jan 20, 2023

Level 3 High

40
Significant
+1 more

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