In eight recent Health Department inspections of Darien restaurants and other food-serving establishments, three were rated “Good”; five, “Fair”; none, “Poor.”
The eight inspections covered in this article took place from April 8 to 13, except for one on March 28 (that report seems to have been lost in the shuffle). The list of recent restaurant inspections is at the bottom of this article, with links to the inspection reports themselves, when available. (If online reports aren’t available now, they usually are within a week.)
How Darien’s restaurants are rated
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 demerits (of 1 to 4 points each) for various code violations.
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A Darien Health Department inspection certificate posted on Darien Doughnuts window, near the door.
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, and now you can also find copies of inspection reports, including state health code scores in the same place.
Any establishment actually deemed unsafe can be closed by the town Health Department until violations are fixed. Town Health Director David Knauf says that has never happened in the time he’s been with the department.
The most recent inspection results
In the list of health inspection results, below, information is listed by name, address, date of inspection, Darien rating, state score, inspector’s comments that led to the state rating and additional remarks on the inspection report. Dates link to the food establishment’s inspection report referenced here (when available, sometimes it takes a while to get posted online), and Darien ratings link to a Web page showing several of the restaurant’s recent inspection ratings.
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See also:
- Our previous article showing restaurant inspection ratings (April 11)
- You Can Now Read Full Health Inspection Reports on Darien Restaurants Online
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For restaurants and other food-serving establishments rated “poor,” and for some others of interest to the public (like schools) additional information is given. When we provide that here, then 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 that perfect state score of 100 points.
Here’s an alphabetical list of the most recently released results of Darien health inspections (keep in mind that a food-serving establishment with a history of “Good” ratings may occasionally “Fair” or “Poor” inspection rating, occasionally the best do, and every restaurant normally gets a few things wrong):
- Bodega Taco Bar — 980 Post Road — March 28 — FAIR — 88
- Frosty Bear Cafe — 1441 Post Road (at Darien Library) — April 11 — GOOD — 93
- Fuji’s Restaurant — 111 Old Kings Hwy. N. — April 8 — FAIR — 91
- Heights Pizza — 330 Heights Road — April 13 — GOOD — 94
- Maplewood at Darien — 599 Post Road — April 13 — GOOD — 98
- Tengda Asian Bistro — 25 Old Kings Hwy. N. — April 11 — FAIR — 90
- Vavala’s Delicatessan — 156 Heights Road — April 8 — FAIR — 93
- Whole Foods Market — 150 Ledge Road — April 12 — FAIR — 93
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