Here’s how Darien Health Department inspectors rated and scored restaurants and other food-serving establishments in town during recent health inspections.
How it works
This Darien Health Department certificate is supposed to be posted where patrons can see it at any food-serving establishment.
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.
See also our previous article listing restaurant inspection ratings.
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.
Here’s an alphabetical list of the results of Darien health inspections (information is listed by name, address, Darien rating, state score):
- Atria Darien — 50 Ledge Road — FAIR — 90
- Fuji’s Restaurant — 111 Old Kings Hwy. N. — FAIR — 89
- Ten Twenty Post Oyster Bar and Bistro — 1020 Post Road — FAIR — 92