Happy Lemon
6014 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA 98118
How the BiteKarma score works
Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.
The official rating comes from Public Health – Seattle & King County, which looks at the trend of the last few routine inspections, so it can differ from the BiteKarma score. The BiteKarma score works the same way in every city we cover.
At a glance
- Keeps coming up: Adequate handwashing facilities, cited 5 times, plus 3 other repeat issues.
- Passed 2 of 8 graded inspections since 2023.
- Last inspected Aug 20, 2025: failed with 1 violation, 1 critical. That was over a year ago, so things may have changed.
- 9 critical violations in the last two years.
Inspection history 10 visits
- 2026
- Visit Oct 29
Educational Inspection
- 2025
- Failed Aug 20
Return Inspection
1 violation, 1 critical
- Critical Adequate handwashing facilities
- Failed Aug 8
Routine Inspection
3 violations, 3 critical
- Critical Proper cooling procedure
- Critical Adequate handwashing facilities
- Critical Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans and required written procedure
- Perfect Mar 10
Return Inspection
No violations
Nearby
BiteKarma scores around Happy Lemon, which is the dark pin. Zoom in to see the dots' scores, and tap a pin marked + to see everything at that address.