Alexandria Restaurant Inspections: 10 Violations Include Flies

After the Virginia Department of Health transitioned to a new online database, restaurant inspections are back. City of Alexandria 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 find 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 Alexandria restaurants in recent weeks, which includes 10 violations at Veronica’s Bakery & Cafe. Click on each restaurant for full results. Full reports are usually available five to seven days after the inspection on the health department's website.

Violations

Atlantis Restaurant: 3648 King St Alexandria, VA 22302
Inspection: Nov. 9
Violations: Employee did not change gloves after handing raw shelled eggs on the cook line and handling ready-to-eat components of gyro sandwich, build-up observed to the interior area of the soda nozzle dispensers by the main server station near the kitchen, dispensing and/or in-use utensils improperly stored between use as follows: knife on the cook line observed stored in-between the counter and side of the reach-in cooler unit where area is not properly cleaned frequently

City Kitchen: 330 S Pickett Street Alexandria, VA 22304
Inspection: Nov. 13
Violations: Meat slicer was observed soiled, chlorine sanitizer concentration in the dish machine measured at 0ppm

Dos Amigos Restaurant: 535 E. Braddock Rd Alexandria, VA 22314
Inspection: Nov. 7
Violations: Observed salmon in vacuum sealed packages

Duck Donuts: 3610 King St F Alexandria, VA 22302
Inspection: Nov. 8
Violations: Interior wall surfaces of ice machine are soiled and should be cleaned, no written procedures for the use of time as a public health control with potentially hazardous foods, spoons, forks, and knives observed laying in a container with food-contact surface not protected from contamination

Euro Cafe: 3001 N. Beauregard St Alexandria, VA 22311
Inspection: Nov. 22 (follow up)
Violations: True freezer in the dry storage area was observed in a state of disrepair and damaged, mops are not hung up to air dry

Jimmy John’s (Dow Ave): 5778 Dow Ave Alexandria, VA 22304
Inspection: Nov. 26
Violations: Observed employee not washing hands before donning gloves to make a sandwich for customer, Quaternary ammonium compound sanitizing solution used was not at an acceptable concentration. QT-10 sanitizer in the spray bottle observed above 500 ppm, no temperature measuring device located in the following cold or hot holding equipment: prep cooler, meat prep cooler, walk in cooler, no test kit located in the facility for monitoring the concentration of the chemical sanitizing solutions (QT-10)

Oak Steak House: 901 N St Asaph St Alexandria, VA 22314
Inspection: Nov. 7
Violations: Observed fish in vacuum-sealed package in the WIC

Panamerican Bakery & Grill Inc.: 650 S. Pickett St Alexandria, VA 22304
Inspection: Nov. 22
Violations: Chlorine sanitizing solution in the dish machine was not at an acceptable concentration, food item(s) were measured at improper temperatures: cooked chicken in the steam well on the cook line observed at 118°F, ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food in the refrigeration unit is not used within 24 hours of preparation and is not properly dated for disposition within 7 days at 41°F: yucca in the prep cooler, peaches in the walk-in cooler, food item(s) for which time rather than temperature is being used as a control was not marked or otherwise identified to indicate the time that is 4 hours past the point in time when the food is removed from temperature control: all pastries in the front display case - pastries filled with meat, pastries filled with cheese, pastries filled with vegetables

Starbucks Coffee #14482: 540 N. Henry St Alexandria, VA 22314
Inspection: Nov. 22
Violations: The person in charge has a Limited Northern VA Certified Food Protection Manager certificate (CFPM photo ID card)

Sweetfire Donna’s: 510 John Carlyle St Alexandria, VA 22314
Inspection: Nov. 13
Violations: Observed mac & cheese sauce (49°F) in a large container that was inadequately cooled from the day before, Alabama Sauce (48°F) that is made in facility, cold holding at improper temperature in ice bath

Veronica’s Bakery & Cafe: 4116 Mt. Vernon Ave Alexandria, VA 22305
Inspection: Nov. 13
Violations: The Person in Charge (PIC) has an expired Northern VA Certified Food Manager photo ID, no handwashing cleanser, soap, was available at the handwashing sink inside the kitchen area nor at the handwashing sink in the bar area, beans and rice stored uncovered inside the 2-door reach-in, cooked ground beef and cooked chicken stored uncovered inside the walk-in cooler, and raw beef and raw chicken stored uncovered inside the bottom of the prep unit, cooked rice, cooked potatoes, pulled chicken, tomato sauce, fried chicken, and cooked ground beef stored inside the walk-in cooler and not intended for use within 24 hours without date marking/labeling, observed several fruit flies in the ware washing and mop sink areas of the kitchen, chlorine concentration of the solution inside the bucket used for wet wiping cloth storage between use exceeded 200ppm when measured, 2-door reach-in cooler in the kitchen area has gaskets that are torn and therefore, not kept intact, no test strips are available for measuring the chlorine concentration of the sanitizer solution at the 3-compartment sink, floors with food residue and other debris, wet mops/mop heads stored against the wall

Wag & Brew: 614-A S Pickett St. Alexandria, VA 22304
Inspection: Nov. 20
Violations: There is no certified food protection manager to supervise the food establishment's food service employees

No Violations

Alexandria Pastry Shop & Cafe: 3690 King St H Alexandria, VA 22302
Inspection: Nov. 15
Violations: none

Bella Napoli: 1310 Mt. Vernon Ave Alexandria, VA 22301
Inspection: Nov. 13 (follow-up)
Violations: none

Cafe Gloria: 1900 N. Beauregard St Alexandria, VA 22311
Inspection: Nov. 12
Violations: none

KungFu Kitchen: 3221 Duke St Alexandria, VA 22314
Inspection: Nov. 19 (pre-opening)
Violations: none

McDonald’s #5919: 3646 King St Alexandria, VA 22302
Inspection: Nov. 18
Violations: none

Pines Of Florence: 1300 King St Alexandria, VA 22314
Inspection: Nov. 17
Violations: none

Pum's Landmark Deli: 101 S. Whiting St Alexandria, VA 22304
Inspection: Nov. 15
Violations: none

Spill The Tea: 515 Braddock Road E Alexandria, 22314
Inspection: Nov. 18 (pre-opening)
Violations: none