Here’s how Darien Health Department inspectors rated and scored restaurants and other food-serving establishments in town during recent health inspections.
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.
Every restaurant and Royle School received a Darien rating of “Good” and a state score in the 90s, with Royle School receiving a perfect 100 state rating. Here’s an alphabetical list of the results of Darien health inspections (information is listed by name, address, Darien rating, state score):
- Aux Delices — Goodwives Shopping Center, 25 Old Kings Hwy. N. — Sept. 16 — GOOD — 98
- Center Street Public House — 22 Center St. — Sept. 15 — GOOD — 92
- Chipotle Mexican Grill — Darien North rest stop on Interstate 95 — Sept. 22 — GOOD — 94
- Royle School — 133 Mansfield Ave. — Sept. 24 — GOOD — 100