Happy Lamb Hot Pot

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score63 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedAugust 25, 2026 →
• address1411 156Th Ave Ne, Bellevue 98007

Is Happy Lamb Hot Pot clean?

Happy Lamb Hot Pot is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 25, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Happy Lamb Hot Pot?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 25, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical
  1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available

When was Happy Lamb Hot Pot last inspected?

Happy Lamb Hot Pot has 6 inspections on record going back to March 15, 2022, averaging 21 points.

Happy Lamb Hot Pot vs Bellevue

Bellevue runs 85% clean across 652 tracked restaurants — 556 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 652 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 August 25, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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