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Emerald City Smoothie
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 7, 2026
- address23862 Se Kent Kangley Rd, Maple Valley 98038
Is Emerald City Smoothie clean?
Emerald City Smoothie is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 7, 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 Emerald City Smoothie?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Emerald City Smoothie last inspected?
Emerald City Smoothie has 4 inspections on record going back to September 22, 2023, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2026 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| July 29, 2025 | Rated Okay | 18 pts |
| March 15, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| September 22, 2023 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
Emerald City Smoothie vs Maple Valley
Maple Valley runs 85% clean across 93 tracked restaurants — 79 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 93 spots Cooked tracks in Maple Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 18% of them.
Other spots in Maple Valley
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 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.