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Hello Em Coffee
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 21, 2026
- address1227 S Weller St, Seattle 98144
Is Hello Em Coffee clean?
Hello Em Coffee is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 21, 2026. 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 Hello Em Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 21, 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
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
When was Hello Em Coffee last inspected?
Hello Em Coffee has 8 inspections on record going back to April 22, 2022, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 21, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| June 6, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| October 15, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 10, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| January 24, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 33 pts |
| January 27, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| April 22, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Hello Em Coffee vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 April 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.