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 sourcecritical
  0600 - 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.

Happy Lemon vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 79% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 46 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, 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 August 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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