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Happy Lemon
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 7, 2026
- address1171 Nw Sammamish Rd, Issaquah 98027
Is Happy Lemon clean?
Happy Lemon is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Happy Lemon?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
When was Happy Lemon last inspected?
Happy Lemon has 3 inspections on record going back to September 20, 2024, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 7, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| February 14, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| September 20, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Happy Lemon vs Issaquah
Issaquah runs 95% clean across 242 tracked restaurants — 229 clean, 13 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 242 spots Cooked tracks in Issaquah, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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 January 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.