Cooked?Happy Lemon
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 6, 2025 →
- address17307 Se 272Nd St, # 118, Covington 98042
Is Happy Lemon clean?
Happy Lemon is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. 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 October 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
When was Happy Lemon last inspected?
Happy Lemon has 3 inspections on record going back to November 7, 2024, averaging 10 points.
October 6, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →February 12, 2025 Good
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View full inspection →November 7, 2024 Good
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View full inspection →Happy Lemon vs Covington
Covington runs 85% clean across 177 tracked restaurants — 150 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 177 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 October 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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