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Issaquah Shell
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score50 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedNovember 19, 2025
- address16300 Se Renton Issaquah Rd, Renton 98059
Is Issaquah Shell clean?
Issaquah Shell is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 19, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Issaquah Shell?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holding
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Issaquah Shell last inspected?
Issaquah Shell has 9 inspections on record going back to April 16, 2021, averaging 27 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 19, 2025 | Rated Okay | 50 pts |
| May 7, 2025 | Rated Okay | 45 pts |
| September 5, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| March 27, 2024 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| August 30, 2023 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| April 20, 2023 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| November 19, 2022 | Rated Okay | 13 pts |
| September 22, 2021 | Rated Okay | 38 pts |
| April 16, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Issaquah Shell vs Newcastle
Newcastle runs 89% clean across 153 tracked restaurants — 136 clean, 17 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 153 spots Cooked tracks in Newcastle, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 November 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.