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Hmart Grocery - Grocery
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 27, 2026
- address1601 2Nd Ave, 100, Seattle 98101
Is Hmart Grocery - Grocery clean?
Hmart Grocery - Grocery is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 27, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Hmart Grocery - Grocery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
- 📋food worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
When was Hmart Grocery - Grocery last inspected?
Hmart Grocery - Grocery has 9 inspections on record going back to January 12, 2022, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| February 3, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| January 26, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| July 28, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 25 pts |
| May 8, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| February 5, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| June 14, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| January 10, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| January 12, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
Hmart Grocery - Grocery 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 4% 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 May 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.