Latest Darien Health Inspections: Three Restaurants ‘Good,’ One ‘Fair,’ One ‘Poor’

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Health Department Ratings Certificate

Some restaurants and other food establishments display their Darien ratings certificates on their front windows, as Darien Doughnuts did here.

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Darien Health Department sanitarians who inspected local restaurants recently rated three of them “Good,” another was rated “Fair,” and another “Poor.”

Information on the five restaurant inspections was the latest released by the department.

[Editor’s note: If it seems like Darienite.com just published restaurant inspection results, it’s because that’s the case. Last week, results were released later because of work the Health Department was doing on a health fair held in Town Hall.]

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Health Department Ratings Certificate

Some restaurants and other food establishments display their Darien ratings certificates on their front windows, as Darien Doughnuts did here.

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.

(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:

  • Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant — 54 Post Road — Oct. 26 — POOR — 86 — Inspector’s comments: “Two smaller cold-holding units not maintaining product temperature under 45 degrees (meatballs at 50 degrees, butter at 56 degrees, diced tomatoes at 55 degrees, meat sauce at 54 degrees); uncovered food — various stations (dessert, croutons, inside storage); light uncovered [in] upright fridge; booster was off on hot water machine — turned on during inspection; clean inside refrigeration; no paper towls at pizza area; fruit flies are still a problem […]; floors in poor repair in dish room and downstairs, floor unclean in walk-in fridge (upstairs); walls repair/ceiling tiles need replaced in basement.” Inspector’s additional remarks: “Some improvements made!”
  • Darien Doughnut — 370 Heights Road — Oct. 22 — GOOD — 95
  • Darien Social — 10 Center St. — Oct. 27 — FAIR — 91
  • Michael Joseph’s Catering — 1405 Post Road — GOOD — 93
  • Palmer’s Market — 264 Heights Road — Oct. 27 — GOOD — 91

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