VA Restaurants Cited: Fruit Fly Infestation, Live Roaches

VIRGINIA — Some signs of a restaurant with problems are easy to spot: Weird smells, crawling insects or unkempt employees are all red flags. But sometimes the problem is harder to pin down, such as food stored at improper temperatures, unclean kitchen equipment, or insufficient handwashing.

Then there are commercial kitchens that are immaculately clean, surpass all safety standards and dish up delicious food.Do you know how clean your favorite coffee shop, go-to restaurant or school kitchen is? Look through these recent food safety inspections from around Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg, courtesy of Patch.

Click on the links below to see recent inspection reports for area restaurants:

• Woodbridge Health Inspections: Tropical Smoothie, Freedom High School
• Manassas Health Inspections: Sonic, KFC
• Ashburn Health Inspections: Saffron House Of Kabob, Taste Of Vietnam
• Leesburg Health Inspections: James Cafe, Wei's Garden
• Fredericksburg Health Inspections: 24 Violations At 1 Restaurant
• Arlington Restaurant Inspections: Sneeze Guard, Rodents, Dirty Nozzles
• Manassas Restaurant Inspections: Fruit Fly Infestation
• Woodbridge Health Inspections: 18 Violations At 1 Facility
• Ashburn Health Inspections: Flies In Kitchens
• Leesburg Health Inspections: Living And Dead Cockroaches
• Falls Church Restaurant Inspections: 18 Violations At One Eatery

"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.