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Hyson Boba Tea & Cafe
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 7, 2026
- address2207 E Madison St, Seattle 98112
Is Hyson Boba Tea & Cafe clean?
Hyson Boba Tea & Cafe is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 7, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Hyson Boba Tea & Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Hyson Boba Tea & Cafe last inspected?
Hyson Boba Tea & Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to December 2, 2025, averaging 51 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2026 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| March 24, 2026 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| February 24, 2026 | Rated Okay | 75 pts |
| December 2, 2025 | Rated Okay | 98 pts |
Hyson Boba Tea & Cafe vs Central Area
Central Area runs 93% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.