Restaurant Inspections: Johnny's Pizzeria and Delia Pizza

During the last few weeks of May, the state health department inspected a few restaurants in the Kingstowne area. For prior restaurant inspection reports, click here.

In Virginia, restaurant inspection reports aren't quite as simple as getting a letter grade or an easy-to-see number rating to post in the front window.

That said, we all want to know how our favorite restaurants stack up on cleanliness and sanitation. Inspectors grade restaurants based on critical and non-critical violations.

A "critical violation" is one that "poses a direct or immediate threat to the safety of the food being served." Non-critical violations are generally related to cleaning or maintenance.

"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 Virginia Department of Health's 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."

Below, find the latest restaurant inspection from the Virginia Department of Health. These inspections reflect visits from inspectors during the last few weeks. Some of the violations were corrected immediately during the recent inspections.

The full reports can be accessed on the health department's website.

Chipotle
8066 Rolling Rd.
Date of inspection: Sept. 26
No violations were found during the inspection.

Delia Pizza
6715G Backlick Rd
Date of inspection: Sept. 26
No violations were found during the inspection.

El Sabor Boliviano
6715 Backlick Rd.
Date of inspection: Sept. 26
Non-critical: Absence of no-smoking signs or international no-smoking signs in non-smoking area.

Johnny's NY Style Pizzeria
7011-G Manchester Blvd.
Date of inspection: Sept. 26
Critical (corrected during inspection): Raw animal food holding in a manner that may cause cross contamination of ready-to-eat food as follows: raw ground beef and raw veal next to salami and cheese in walk-in cooler.
Critical (corrected during inspection): 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: cooked onion, cooked veal, soup, salsa in walk-in cooler.
Non-critical (corrected during inspection): Observed the hand sink by pizza prep and 3-vat holding equipments.