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Monkey Grind Espresso Bar
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 26, 2025
- address518 N 85Th St, Seattle 98103
Is Monkey Grind Espresso Bar clean?
Monkey Grind Espresso Bar is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 26, 2025. 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 Monkey Grind Espresso Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
When was Monkey Grind Espresso Bar last inspected?
Monkey Grind Espresso Bar has 6 inspections on record going back to October 22, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 26, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| April 22, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 21, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| September 27, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 8, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| October 22, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Monkey Grind Espresso Bar vs Northgate
Northgate runs 93% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 302 clean, 23 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Northgate, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 September 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.