Kingstowne Restaurant Violations: Cooler Not Circulating Cold Air

Every wonder how clean your local restaurants are? Fairfax County restaurants regularly undergo health inspections, with the frequency depending on the type of food served and how it is prepared. While violations like malfunctioning refrigerators and food that's not warm or cold enough often pop up, health inspectors sometimes note more critical violations.

“In our experience, it is unrealistic to expect that a complex, full-service food operation can routinely avoid any violations," notes the Virginia Department of Health.

Here are full results for the latest inspections in Kingstowne-Rose Hill, including restaurants that passed with no violations. Among these violations were two prep coolers not circulating cool air at Subway.

Click on the violations to see each restaurant's results. Full reports are usually available five to seven days after the inspection on the health department’s website.

Violations

Panera Bread: 5926 Kingstowne Towne Ctr, #130, Kingstowne, VA 22315, last inspection: June 18 (follow up)

violations: Water from the handwashing sink at women's bathroom was measured at a temperature less than 100°F

Pica Taco: 6480 Landsdowne Centre, Alexandria, VA 22315, last inspection: June 18

violations: Foods hot holding at improper temperatures: pork on steam table observed at 125F, both hand sinks were blocked, preventing access by employees for easy handwashing, large cart was in front of the service line hand sink and plastic bags observed in hand sink in rear kitchen area, Container of isopropyl alcohol observed without a lid on a food shelf above other food items (all corrected)

Shawarma Guys: 7011C Manchester Blvd, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22310, last inspection: June 18

violations: Refrigerated, ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food that is prepared on site is not used or discarded within 24 hours of preparation and was not observed to be date marked: cooked spinach and diced tomato (corrected), person in charge (PIC) has a valid certificate of successful completion of a Certified Food Manager (CFM) exam but does not possess the CFM card

Subway: 6110 Rose Hill Dr, Alexandria, VA 22310, last inspection: June 18 (follow up)

violations: Foods cold holding at improper temperatures: deli ham, sofritas, chicken breast, chopped steak in #1 and cut tomatoes in #2 44f, refrigeration unit is not operating properly and is unable to maintain cold food at or below 41°F: The open top prep coolers 48f and 34f (not circulating cold air)

No violations

Mission BBQ: 6482 Landsdowne Centre, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22315, last inspection: June 11

violations: none

Olympian's Family Restaurant: 6432 Landsdowne Center, Alexandria, VA 22315, last inspection: June 11

violations: none

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