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Uptown Espresso
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 19, 2026
- address3223 W Mcgraw St, Seattle 98199
Is Uptown Espresso clean?
Uptown Espresso is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 19, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Uptown Espresso?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Uptown Espresso last inspected?
Uptown Espresso has 8 inspections on record going back to March 5, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 19, 2026 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| November 14, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| April 23, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 6, 2024 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| July 7, 2023 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| May 9, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| August 31, 2022 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| March 5, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Uptown Espresso vs Interbay
Interbay runs 91% clean across 92 tracked restaurants — 84 clean, 8 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 92 spots Cooked tracks in Interbay, 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 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.