Highland Shell

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score30 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 9, 2026 →
• address21449 Pacific Hwy S, Des Moines 98198

Is Highland Shell clean?

Highland Shell is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 9, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Highland Shell?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 9, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Highland Shell last inspected?

Highland Shell has 11 inspections on record going back to May 9, 2022, averaging 21 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Highland Shell vs Des Moines

Des Moines runs 90% clean across 174 tracked restaurants — 157 clean, 16 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 174 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 September 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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