Hotwire Coffee House

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score23 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 4, 2026 →
• address4410 California Ave Sw, Seattle 98116

Is Hotwire Coffee House clean?

Hotwire Coffee House is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 4, 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 Hotwire Coffee House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 4, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Hotwire Coffee House last inspected?

Hotwire Coffee House has 9 inspections on record going back to January 14, 2021, averaging 6 points.

Hotwire Coffee House vs West Seattle

West Seattle runs 92% clean across 227 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 227 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, 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.

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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 March 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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