Latest Health Reports for Darien Restaurants and Other Food-Serving Establishments

Here’s how Darien restaurants and other food-serving places fared in the latest inspection reports, released Thursday by the Darien Health Department.

The department on Thursday released five reports of inspection visits from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2. Of those, three inspections resulted in a “B” rating and two more received an “A.” No establishment was rated “C.”

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.

Here’s an alphabetical list of the most recently released health inspection results (an explanation of how this list is put together is immediately below it):

—Aux Delices — Goodwive’s Shopping Center, 25 Old Kings Hwy. North — Feb. 27 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 97

—Bodega Taco Bar — 980 Post Road — Feb. 22 — Town Rating: B — State Score: 90

—BSF Tap & Table — 800 Post Road — Feb. 22 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 94

—The Club — 1033 Post Road — Feb. 22 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 94

—Country Club of Darien — 300 Mansfield Ave. — Feb. 15 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 98

—Country Club of Darien Satellite Kitchen — 300 Mansfield Ave. — Feb. 15 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 96

—Fjord Fish Market — 1015 Post Road — Feb. 15 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 95

—Flour Water Salt Bread — 20 Grove St. — Feb. 15 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 98

—Papa Joe’s — 1973 Post Road — Feb. 23 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 93

—Post Corner Pizza — 847 Post Road — Feb. 22 — Town Rating: B — State Score: 88

—Panera Bread — Darien North rest stop, Interstate 95 — Feb. 13 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 100

—Quattro Pazzi — 171 Post Road — March 1 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 93

—Sbarro Darien North — Darien North rest stop, Interstate 95 — Feb. 13 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 94

—La Taqueria — 1077 Post Road — March 1 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 96

—Woodway Country Club — 540 Hoyt St. — Feb. 23 — Town Rating: A — State Score: 99

Each link from an establishment’s name goes to the web page on the town Health Department website showing that establishment’s recent inspection ratings. Links from the inspection dates go to the Web page for the most recent inspection, if it’s been posted.

(Additional information on the town Health Department’s food protection program is available here.)

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.

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.

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.