Phoenix Restaurant Inspections - The Dogged and the Dour

If I wanted to point out the negative, I certainly could. There are hundreds of restaurants in town that could certainly do much better on their health inspections than they do. As a matter of practice, I only pick out the ones that have had 7 or more major violations and reprint their names here. In the interest of starting out the week with a positive attitude, though, I will report to you today that this is the fewest number of serious violators that I have seen since I started compiling this monthly information, and I've been doing it for years.

Speaking of eating out, I'm trying to decide which restaurant I'm going to visit during Arizona Restaurant Week. Many cities have such an event, and this will be Arizona's inaugural, starting out with dining establishments in metro Phoenix only. I've narrowed it down to three places, and they all happen to be Asian. Maybe that's because I had enough meat last week at Rawhide to last me a month!

Anyway, back to the topic at hand: restaurant reports (in case you forgot!). Here are the bad guys for July, as well as hundreds of places that got their gold star.

7 Major Violations
EL TORITO, 6200 N SCOTTSDALE RD, SCOTTSDALE 85253
HORSE SHOE RESTAURANT, 2140 W BUCKEYE RD, PHOENIX 85009
COACH & WILLIE'S, 412 S 3RD ST, PHOENIX 85004

8 Major Violations
TAKAMATSU JAPANESE & KOREAN RESTAURANT, 4214 W DUNLAP AVE, PHOENIX 85051

11 Major Violations
MARISCOS CHIHUAHUA, 1834 W INDIAN SCHOOL RD, PHOENIX 85015

Here is the list of restaurants that did the best on their inspections this past month: July Restaurant Inspections in Maricopa County

_{Why do I present these business names in all upper case letters? Because that's the way they are provided to me!}