North Hill Espresso

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 8, 2026 →
• address20738 1St Ave S, Des Moines 98198

Is North Hill Espresso clean?

North Hill Espresso is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at North Hill Espresso?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used

When was North Hill Espresso last inspected?

North Hill Espresso has 6 inspections on record going back to September 16, 2021, averaging 1 points.

North Hill Espresso vs Des Moines

Des Moines runs 90% clean across 165 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 165 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 January 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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