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Upper - Hempler's
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 12, 2026
- address334 1St Ave N, Seattle 98109
Is Upper - Hempler's clean?
Upper - Hempler's is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 12, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Upper - Hempler's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foodscritical2300 - Proper consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods
When was Upper - Hempler's last inspected?
Upper - Hempler's has 7 inspections on record going back to April 27, 2022, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 12, 2026 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| October 28, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 27, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| October 22, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| April 9, 2024 | Rated Good | 13 pts |
| November 13, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 27, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Upper - Hempler's vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 March 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.