Espresso By Design

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 30, 2025 →
• address511 S Mead St, Seattle 98108

Is Espresso By Design clean?

Espresso By Design is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 30, 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 Espresso By Design?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical

When was Espresso By Design last inspected?

Espresso By Design has 6 inspections on record going back to June 10, 2021, averaging 10 points.

Espresso By Design vs Greater Duwamish

Greater Duwamish runs 88% clean across 147 tracked restaurants — 130 clean, 15 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 147 spots Cooked tracks in Greater Duwamish, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 October 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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