Restaurant Inspections: How Clean Is Your Favorite Restaurant?

Virginia Health Department officials inspected dozens of restaurants in Arlington in the past few weeks.

"Ideally, an operation would have no critical violations, or none which are not corrected immediately and not repeated. In our experience, it is unrealistic to expect that a complex, full-service food operation can routinely avoid any violations," according to Virginia Department of Health's website.

The site continues: "Keep in mind that any inspection report is a 'snapshot' of the day and time of the inspection. On any given day, a restaurant could have fewer or more violations than noted in the report. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long term cleanliness of an establishment."

Full reports can be accessed on the Health Department's website.

• A core item "usually relates to general sanitation, operational controls, sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOPs), facilities or structures, equipment design, or general maintenance."
• A priority item is "a provision in this Code whose application contributes directly to the elimination, prevention or reduction to an acceptable level, hazards associated with foodborne illness or injury and there is no other provision that more directly controls the hazard," and "includes items with a quantifiable measure to show control of hazards such as cooking, reheating, cooling, handwashing."
• A priority foundation item "includes an item that requires the purposeful incorporation of specific actions, equipment or procedures by industry management to attain control of risk factors that contribute to foodborne illness or injury such as personnel training, infrastructure or necessary equipment, HACCP plans, documentation or record keeping, and labeling."

Click on the name of the restaurant in the table below for the full restaurant inspection reports. These are the most recent inspection reports available from the Health Department.

• Looking for restaurants in Clarendon, Courthouse and Rosslyn? Click here to see the inspections posted on Clarendon-Courthouse-Rosslyn Patch.

Violations

  April 15, 2013

4 core items; 2 priority items; 1 priority foundation item

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