Latest Health Inspection Ratings for Darien Restaurants

Here are the seven most recent inspection reports for town food-serving establishments, as released by Darien Health Department.

Five establishments received an “A” rating, the best in the town’s A-B-C ratings system, and two others received a “B.” The inspections took place on Oct. 19 and 22.

Here’s an alphabetical list of the most recently released health inspection results (an explanation for each part of the list, including links, is just below the list).

Keep in mind that a food-serving establishment with a history of good ratings may occasionally get a poor inspection rating, occasionally the best do, and every restaurant normally gets a few things wrong (an explanation of how this list is put together is immediately below it):

—Burgers, Shakes and Fries — 800 Post Road — Oct. 22 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 98

—The Cho Bop — 1015 Post Road — Oct. 22 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 94

—Country Club of Darien — 300 Mansfield Road — Oct. 22 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 94

—Country Club of Darien Satellite Kitchen — 300 Mansfield Road — Oct. 19 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 93

—Fjord Fish Market — 1015 Post Road — Oct. 22 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 93

—Mama Carmela’s — 1981 Post Road — Oct. 19 — Town Rating: B — State Score: 91

—Springdale Athletic Club — 2 Camp Ave. — Oct. 19 — Town Rating: B — State Score: 91

Dates link to the food establishment’s inspection report referenced here (when available, sometimes it takes a while to get posted online), and Darien’s own A/B/C ratings link to a Web page showing several of the restaurant’s recent inspection ratings.

For restaurants and other food-serving establishments rated “C,” and for some others of interest to the public (like schools) additional information is given. When we provide that information here, then words within brackets (“[ ]”) have been added for clarity by Darienite.com; semicolons (“;”) separate individual comments by the inspectors. Each comment separated by semicolons is about a particular violation that triggers a deduction of one or more points from a perfect state score of 100.

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See also:

• Our previous article showing restaurant inspection ratings (Oct. 18)
  
• STAMFORD online health inspection results
• NORWALK online health inspection ratings (explanation of ratings)

You can find the past several inspection ratings under the Darien ratings system for food-serving establishments along with copies of inspection reports, including state health code scores on this website.

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How Darien’s Food-Serving Places Are Rated

Restaurants in town are rated under the Darien Health Department’s own A/B/C 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, so a restaurant scoring higher than others on the state scale may actually get a lower score on the Darien scale.

 

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.