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.

• ⚠️2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical

When was Issaquah Shell last inspected?

Issaquah Shell has 9 inspections on record going back to April 16, 2021, averaging 27 points.

Issaquah Shell vs Newcastle

Newcastle runs 88% clean across 156 tracked restaurants — 138 clean, 18 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 156 spots Cooked tracks in Newcastle, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 November 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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