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Kappa Hookah & Expresso
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 1, 2026
- address15061 Military Rd S, Ste C, Seatac 98188
Is Kappa Hookah & Expresso clean?
Kappa Hookah & Expresso is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 1, 2026. 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 Kappa Hookah & Expresso?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️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 Kappa Hookah & Expresso last inspected?
Kappa Hookah & Expresso has 6 inspections on record going back to June 25, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2026 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| June 12, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 14, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 22, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 30, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 25, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Kappa Hookah & Expresso vs Tukwila
Tukwila runs 89% clean across 296 tracked restaurants — 264 clean, 30 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 296 spots Cooked tracks in Tukwila, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 May 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.