Embody Fitness Gourmet, which serves food at Equinox at 72 Heights Road received another “Poor” rating by Darien Health Department inspectors on Nov. 5, a week after it received a “Poor” rating on Oct. 28.
Other ratings in the recent batch of released Health Department reports: Two restaurants in town were rated “Good” and one “Fair.”
Embody at Equinox (there’s also an Embody at the Darien YMCA with better ratings) has a history of poor and fair ratings from the town department’s inspectors, as Darienite.com reported back on July 31:
- July 31, 2014 — Poor
- Aug. 7, 2014 — Fair
- Nov. 20, 2014 — Fair
- Feb. 27, 2015 — Fair
- June 25 — Poor — state score: 86
- July 8 — Poor — state score: 79
- July 20 — Good — state score: 94
- Oct. 28 — Poor — state score: 79
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, inspection date, 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:
- Cheeseboy — Darien South Rest Stop on Interstate 95 — Nov. 5 — GOOD — 94
- Embody Fitness Gourmet (at Equinox fitness club) — 72 Heights Road — Nov. 5 — POOR — 85 — Inspector’s comments: “Tofu at 97 [degrees], was delivered this a.m. (before lunch), improper cooling, temped [temperature taken] at 3:33 p.m.; three-bay sink not used in correct three-step process; knives stored in rack unclean; straight bleach (toxic levels) used on food contact surfaces — spray bottle; ice scoop stored in ice bin — ice scoop in dish rack; chipped/flaking bowl (for cooking eggs), hand juicer chipping paint, lid of food storage cracked.”
- Estia’s — 1020 Post Road (rear) — Nov. 5 — FAIR — 91
- McDonald’s Restaurant — Darien South Rest Stop on Interstate 95 — GOOD — 95
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