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Empire Coffee
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 14, 2026
- address19865 1St Ave S, 301, Normandy Park 98148
Is Empire Coffee clean?
Empire Coffee is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Empire Coffee?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 14, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Empire Coffee last inspected?
Empire Coffee has 6 inspections on record going back to September 22, 2021, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 14, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 25, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| February 23, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 13, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 22, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Empire Coffee vs Des Moines
Des Moines runs 90% clean across 164 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 164 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 April 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.