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Cafe Happy
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedDecember 19, 2025
- address1406 40Th St, Seattle 98105
Is Cafe Happy clean?
Cafe Happy is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 19, 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 Cafe Happy?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️1000 - Food in good condition, safe and unadulterated; approved additivescritical1000 - Food in good condition, safe and unadulterated; approved additives
When was Cafe Happy last inspected?
Cafe Happy has 7 inspections on record going back to May 20, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| May 22, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 1, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| April 17, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| June 5, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| March 14, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| May 20, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Cafe Happy vs University District
University District runs 88% clean across 326 tracked restaurants — 286 clean, 39 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 326 spots Cooked tracks in University District, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 December 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.