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Uptown Espresso
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 3, 2026
- address4301 Sw Edmunds St, Seattle 98116
Is Uptown Espresso clean?
Uptown Espresso is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 3, 2026. 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 Uptown Espresso?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Uptown Espresso last inspected?
Uptown Espresso has 6 inspections on record going back to January 25, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 3, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| March 13, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 15, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 7, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 13, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 25, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Uptown Espresso vs West Seattle
West Seattle runs 94% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in West Seattle, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.