Latest Health Dept Restaurant Inspections: 1 ‘Poor,’ 3 ‘Fair,’ 3 ‘Good’

One food-serving establishment in town continues to get “Poor” ratings in Darien Health Department inspections, while three others received a “Fair” rating and three were rated “Good,” in the latest reports released by the department.

How the ratings system and scores work

Restaurants in town are rated under the Darien Health Department’s own Good/Fair/Poor ratings system. Health inspectors also use the state health code regulations to score restaurants, with a perfect score set at 100, and deductions for various code violations.

The Darien system takes into account problems that are ongoing or that have been fixed, so a restaurant scoring higher than others on the state scale may actually get a lower score on the Darien scale, or vice versa.

You can find the past several inspection ratings under the Darien ratings system for food-serving establishments on this website.

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See also:

• Our previous article listing restaurant inspection ratings
• Shake Shack Coming to Town

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Any establishment actually deemed unsafe can be closed by the town Health Department until violations are fixed. Darien Health Director David Knauf says that has never happened in the time he’s been with the department.

(In the list of health inspection results, below, information is listed by name, address, Darien rating, state score; for restaurants rated “poor,” additional information is given: inspector’s comments that led to the state rating and additional remarks on the inspection report [information within brackets has been added for clarity by Darienite.com; semicolons like this (“;”) separate individual comments, each one with a particular violation that triggers a point deduction from a perfect state score of 100 points; Darienite.com will change abbreviations, punctuation and other grammar to fit our editorial style, usually silently if there is no change in meaning].)

Here’s an alphabetical list of the most recently released results of Darien health inspections:

• Amanda Smith Caterers — 1480 Post Road — Oct. 29 — FAIR — 96
• Embody Fitness Gourmet LLC — 72 Heights Road (inside Equinox) — Oct. 28 — POOR — 79 — Inspector’s comments: “Two new employees, no documentation of training; mold/unwholesome produce in back storage room (carrots and beets); cold holding display unit 56-60 degrees (shrimp at 57 degrees, tofu at 58 degrees). Do NOT use unit [until] fixed!; thermometer missing in bain marie; produce not washed before juicing; large tub of peanut butter in back storage room uncovered; flat of lemon grass on the floor; sm[all] cup used to dispense granola; misuse of hand sink — dumping in hand sink; ice scoop stored in drying rack and sm[all] cup used to dispense bulk granola; shelving in back unclean; floors sticky — unclean.” Additional inspector’s remarks: “Expired gal[lon] of milk in back upright fridge (unopened). Permit and rating not visibile to the public.” — SEE ALSO, from Darienite.com on July 31: “String of Fair/Poor Health Inspection Ratings for Embody in Noroton Heights”
• Genji [sushi bar] — 150 Ledge Road (in Whole Foods Market) — Oct. 29 — GOOD — 95
• Meatball & Co. — 20 Center St. — Oct. 29 — GOOD — 94
• Michael Joseph’s Catering — 1405 Post Road — Oct. 27 — GOOD — 93
• New Beijing Restaurant — 5 Tokeneke Road — Oct. 29 — FAIR — 88
• Unidine — 100 Tokeneke Road (at Zotos International offices) — Oct. 30 — FAIR — 93