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Ladybug Espresso
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 6, 2025
- address8902 14Th Ave S, Seattle 98108
Is Ladybug Espresso clean?
Ladybug Espresso is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Ladybug Espresso?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycritical2200 - Accurate thermometer provided and used to evaluate temperature of TCS foods
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Ladybug Espresso last inspected?
Ladybug Espresso has 5 inspections on record going back to June 11, 2021, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 6, 2025 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| January 3, 2024 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| May 2, 2023 | Rated Okay | 17 pts |
| June 22, 2022 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| June 11, 2021 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
Ladybug Espresso vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 14% of them.
Other spots in White Center
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 January 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.