Cooked?Jp's Taproom & Grill
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 9, 2024 →
- address13038 Se Kent Kangley Rd, Kent 98030
Is Jp's Taproom & Grill clean?
Jp's Taproom & Grill is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 9, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Jp's Taproom & Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 9, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Jp's Taproom & Grill last inspected?
Jp's Taproom & Grill has 2 inspections on record going back to August 19, 2021, averaging 18 points.
April 9, 2024 Good
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View full inspection →Jp's Taproom & Grill vs Covington
Covington runs 85% clean across 177 tracked restaurants — 150 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 177 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 April 9, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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