Bethel Restaurant Scores: How Did Your Favorite Stony Hill Eatery Rate?

Editor’s note: In this series, Patch shares local restaurant scores with readers. All information was provided by the town’s health department. Downtown Part 1 is downtown restaurants from A-H. Restaurants beginning with the letters I-Z will be posted later this week. Check the bottom of the article for links to more scores in Bethel and nearby towns.

How safe is the take-out or restaurant food you’re eating? Local health departments visit restaurants unannounced a few times per year to ensure customers are protected from health concerns that could make them sick.

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Patch has collected a number of these scores and will be publishing them over the next several weeks for Bethel, Brookfield, Redding, Weston, Easton and nearby towns.

Each restaurant is scored by the local health department using a debit system. Starting at 100 points, the restaurant is debited one to four points, depending on the violations. Four point items are of most concern while a one point debit is important, but less of a concern.

Redding Health Officer Doug Hartline told Patch: “It’s important to know that a restaurant with one four point debit receiving the score of 96 can be of more concern than a 91 score from one and two point debits. Examples of four points items are improper hot and cold holding temps, food from an improper source, ill food workers, safe water source, plumbing cross connections.”

Below are the health inspection scores for Bethel’s restaurants located in the Stony Hill section of town. Bethel Patch will post downtown restaurant scores on Wednesday and Friday. Click here to sign up for the Bethel Patch newsletter so you won’t miss it!

The information below was provided by the Bethel Health Department. Full reports can be obtained at the Bethel Health Department, 1 School Street, Bethel.

Armando’s, 47 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected Sept. 2015
• Score - 86
• Points were taken off for food items not being properly covered, lack of sanitizing buckets at food prep stations, and leaky faucets, among others.
• Corrections must be made by Dec. 2015

Bethel Hot Dog Palace, 44 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected Aug. 2015
• Score - 96
• Points were taken off for ice buildup in freezer, leaky faucet and improper temperature in the bain marie.
• Corrections must be made by Nov. 2015

Capri Pizza, 182 Old Hawleyville Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 91
• Points were taken off for pizza boxes being stored on floor, lack of chlorine test strips, and lack of records for daily pizza log, among other violations.
• Corrections must be made by Oct. 2015

Empire Szechuan, 89 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 81
• A 4-point violation and a warning was given for leaving defrosting food products sitting in water without running water continuously over frozen food items. Points were taken for not covering food items in refrigerators and walk-in, placing beer bottles in the same ice used for drinks, lack of sanitizing buckets, and other violations.
• Corrections must be made by Oct. 2015

For Pete’s Sake Deli, 73 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected June 2015
• Score - 91
• Points were taken for a repair needed on screen window of the employee restroom, red hollow stirrers being used instead of solid stirrers at the coffee station, and having too much overstocking of food in the bain marie, among others.
• Corrections must be made by Sept. 2015

Fiji Asian Bistro and Sushi, 68 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 87
• Points were taken off for failure to store cutting board off floor, utensils not facing upward in containers, storing items in hand washing sinks and not disposing of sushi after 4 hours, among other violations.
• Corrections must be made by Oct. 2015

Old Heidelberg, 56 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected May 2015
• Score - 89
• Points were taken off for improper thawing of meat, improper storage of food items, lack of hot water in employee hand washing sink and others.
• Corrections must be made by Aug. 2015

Lebanese Cuisine, 23 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 84
• A 4-point violation was given for improper storage of meats in reach-in, bain marie, and walk-in coolers, lack of sanitizing buckets for cloth towels, leaving spoons in food products in deli case, failure to clean dough machine and conveyor belt on prep table and a number of other violations.
• Corrections must be made by Oct. 2015

Meeting House Pub, 37 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 91
• Points were taken for improper storage of raw meat, improper covering for raw clams, improper storage of plastic food containers in walk-in cooler, and utensils being placed improperly in dish washing machine.
• Corrections must be made by Oct. 2015

Mexicali Rose, 68 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 88
• Violations included improper storage of raw meat and eggs, hot water temperature not running hot enough, lack of chlorine test strips, lack of soap and paper towels at all sinks, and other violations.
• Corrections must be made by Oct. 2015

Panda Garden, 180 Old Hawleyville Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 93
• Violations included improper food covering when cooling food, not using chlorine test strips in sanitizing buckets, failure to clean rubber door gaskets on bain marie, and more.

Royal Fish and Chips, 75 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 96
• Points were taken off for dust accumulation on portable fans, leaky faucets needing repair and hood filters needing to be cleaned.
• Corrections must be made by Oct. 2015

Subway, 75 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 82
• Violations included a presence of roach infestation in the cabinet of the self-service soda machine, lack of thermometer in front reach-in refrigerator, improper storage of boxes in both walk-in coolers, rust on self-service soda machine, failure to clean rubber gaskets of all refrigerators and walk-ins, no hot water in bathroom, no Quality Food Service professional on site. An exterminator report was requested by the Bethel Health Department.
• Correction date not provided.

Village Pizza, 23 Stony Hill Road

• Inspected July 2015
• Score - 90
• Points were taken off for improper thawing of frozen food, ice buildup on reach-ins, broken lid of freezer in dough room, failure to properly clean mixer and attachments, top of stove and all rubber door gaskets.
• Corrections must be made by Oct. 2015

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Related:

Bethel Restaurant Scores: Downtown Part 1

Redding Restaurant Scores: How Did Your Favorite Eatery Fare?

Brookfield Restaurant Scores: How Did Your Favorite Eatery Rate?

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