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Happy Lemon
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 20, 2025
- address6014 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118
Is Happy Lemon clean?
Happy Lemon is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 20, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Happy Lemon?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Happy Lemon last inspected?
Happy Lemon has 6 inspections on record going back to January 13, 2023, averaging 24 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 20, 2025 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| August 8, 2025 | Rated Okay | 45 pts |
| March 10, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| February 24, 2025 | Rated Okay | 75 pts |
| February 22, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| January 13, 2023 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
Happy Lemon vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 August 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.