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Tapioca Express
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedDecember 19, 2025
- address15230 Ne 24Th St, 1-R, Redmond 98052
Is Tapioca Express clean?
Tapioca Express is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on December 19, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Tapioca Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Tapioca Express last inspected?
Tapioca Express has 9 inspections on record going back to November 2, 2021, averaging 18 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2025 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| February 21, 2025 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| April 19, 2024 | Rated Okay | 13 pts |
| November 3, 2023 | Rated Okay | 35 pts |
| April 28, 2023 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| September 29, 2022 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| February 23, 2022 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| November 18, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| November 2, 2021 | Rated Okay | 45 pts |
Tapioca Express vs Redmond
Redmond runs 90% clean across 489 tracked restaurants — 441 clean, 46 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 489 spots Cooked tracks in Redmond, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 December 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.