Espresso Works

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score22 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJune 9, 2025
• address19305 55Th Ave Ne, Lake Forest Park 98155

Is Espresso Works clean?

Espresso Works is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 9, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Espresso Works?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
  5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycritical
  2200 - Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Espresso Works last inspected?

Espresso Works has 5 inspections on record going back to February 22, 2021, averaging 10 points.

Espresso Works vs Kenmore

Kenmore runs 91% clean across 99 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 8 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 99 spots Cooked tracks in Kenmore, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 June 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.