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Smokin Lady Espresso
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score2 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 31, 2025
- address23826 Pacific Hwy S, Kent 98032
Is Smokin Lady Espresso clean?
Smokin Lady Espresso is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 31, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Smokin Lady Espresso?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 31, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
When was Smokin Lady Espresso last inspected?
Smokin Lady Espresso has 4 inspections on record going back to November 4, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 31, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
| April 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 17, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 4, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
Smokin Lady Espresso vs Des Moines
Des Moines runs 90% clean across 164 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 164 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 32% of them.
Other spots in Des Moines
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 July 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.