Bequest Coffee Co

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 3, 2026 →
• address2200 E Madison St, B, Seattle 98112

Is Bequest Coffee Co clean?

Bequest Coffee Co is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 3, 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 Bequest Coffee Co?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️5100 - Food safety rating placard is not posted or visible
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Bequest Coffee Co last inspected?

Bequest Coffee Co has 6 inspections on record going back to April 27, 2023, averaging 18 points.

Bequest Coffee Co vs Central Area

Central Area runs 93% clean across 195 tracked restaurants — 181 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 195 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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