Like watching “An Inconvenient Truth” or “Food Inc.”, I really don’t want to look at Dallas restaurant inspection scores. I’m afraid that — while I know I’ll learn something valuable — it will be disturbing. Recently, though, I came across this site that, among other things, lists poor and failing restaurants in one neat list. It’s updated monthly and I can’t resist visiting it regularly. As feared, a few places in or near our neighborhood have recently made the ick list: Chili’s Casa Linda scored a 73, which is passing, but is pretty low and requires a follow-up inspection; White Rock Sports Bar on Buckner scored a 70, which is one point above failing; and Vina Tofu, one of those little Asian places at Walnut and Audelia, got such a low score a few months ago, that they had to close, but their most recent inspection garnered an 80, which is acceptable. Sol’s Nieto on Mockingbird, a place many of my LH friends and I visit often, recently scored a 76, which isn’t that bad, but considering that they failed just months before, you’d think they would try to do just a little better than ‘passing’.
The city’s web site allows you to search for restaurant scores by zip code.
