One Darien eatery was rated “Poor” and two were rated “Good” in the latest inspection reports released by the Darien Health Department. (See the bottom of this article for details.)
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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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 most recent inspection report online, and Darien ratings link to a Web page showing the restaurant’s recent inspection ratings.
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See also:
- Our previous article showing restaurant inspection ratings (March 21)
- You Can Now Read Full Health Inspection Reports on Darien Restaurants Online (Dec. 8)
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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):
Aux Delices — 25 Old Kings Hwy. N. (Goodwives Shopping Center) — March 22 — POOR — 91 — Inspector’s comments: “Two large, dense quiches at 55 degrees from previous day in display case, stacking quiches to cool in very full walk-in [cooler?] per Paola; two lights uncovered in front display; misuse of hand sink — rinsing wiping cloth in HS [hand sink]; label all granular items not in original [container] (kitchen).” Inspector’s additional remarks: “Employees sick with flu working […] March 17, sent home still not well, lasagna in back low boy and front display at 49 to 51 [degrees] from Stamford kitchen, delivered when?? Lasagna was made on Sunday according to QFO [Qualified Food Operator] Nancy. Turkey tettrazini (family portion) at 47 to 48 degrees in customer grab-and-go case, sell-by date is March 27. Delivered today? Nancy called the driver, and he told her the truck was not turned on today because it was cold outside this morning.”
Planet Pizza — 882 Post Road — March 21 — GOOD — 96
Unidine at Zotos International — 100 Tokeneke Road — March 23 — GOOD — 94
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