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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 used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
When was Hotwire Coffee House last inspected?
Hotwire Coffee House has 9 inspections on record going back to January 14, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 4, 2026 | Rated Okay | 23 pts |
| April 16, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| November 19, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| March 15, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| August 8, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 27, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| November 22, 2022 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| March 23, 2022 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| January 14, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Hotwire Coffee House vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, 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.
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.