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Restaurant Inspections: Curry Mantra, Luciano, Silver Diner

See how your favorite Oakton-area restaurants were rated by health inspectors.

Inspectors from the Virginia Department of Health visited several restaurants in or near Oakton this week. See a sampling of those results below, and visit the health department's website for a complete list of recent inspections.

Curry Mantra 3
262-H Cedar Lane S.E.
Date of inspection: September 17
The person in charge is not able to provide written procedures for the use of time as a public health control with the following potentially hazardous food item: from the buffet, offered for three (3) hours: butter chicken, tandoori chicken, saag paneej (spinach), goat curry, rice, eggplant, rice pudding.
 
Luciano Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria
2946-G Chain Bridge Road
Date of inspection: September 17
The following cooked potentially hazardous food(s) are not being adequately cooled from 135 degrees to 70 degrees within two hours: Wedding soup/minestrone soup cooling at room temperature (3 hours): 107/83 degrees.
 
Silver Diner           
12250 Silver Diner Place
Date of inspection: September 17
The nonfood-contact surfaces of the following equipment had accumulations of grime and debris: refrigeration gaskets on several refrigeration units.
 
Bagel Buddies
13081 Fair Lakes Shopping Center
Date of inspection: September 16
The following 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: 1. true refrigerator: roast beef, corn beef, turkey, ham, American cheese, cheddar cheese.

About these inspections: 

"Ideally, an operation would have no critical violations, or none which are not corrected immediately and not repeated. In our experience, it is unrealistic to expect that a complex, full-service food operation can routinely avoid any violations," according to department of health website.

The site continues: "Keep in mind that any inspection report is a 'snapshot' of the day and time of the inspection. On any given day, a restaurant could have fewer or more violations than noted in the report. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long term cleanliness of an establishment."

Full reports can be accessed on the health department's website.
A core item "usually relates to general sanitation, operational controls, sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOPs), facilities or structures, equipment design, or general maintenance."

A priority item is "a provision in this Code whose application contributes directly to the elimination, prevention or reduction to an acceptable level, hazards associated with foodborne illness or injury and there is no other provision that more directly controls the hazard," and "includes items with a quantifiable measure to show control of hazards such as cooking, reheating, cooling, handwashing."

A priority foundation item "includes an item that requires the purposeful incorporation of specific actions, equipment or procedures by industry management to attain control of risk factors that contribute to food borne illness or injury such as personnel training, infrastructure or necessary equipment, HACCP plans, documentation or record keeping, and labeling." 

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