FOOD

DON’T THINK of clean eating as just a trendy diet. The places you eat should prepare your food correctly — with washed hands — on clean surfaces. We analyzed restaurant inspections from zip codes 75231, 75238 and 75243 to see how many restaurants didn’t make the grade. To see specific grades at your favorite restaurants, check out the Food Inspection Scores database on the City of Dallas website.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FOOD INSPECTIONS IN 2018: 1,293

Top 5 Restaurants And How They Fared

We’re bringing you the food inspection scores from Lake Highlands best-rated restaurants on Yelp.

93 THAI OPAL

88 ONE90 SMOKED MEATS

87 NAZCA KITCHEN

83 ARIF CAFÉ

81 MARIO BROS TACOS

THE FIVE WORST RESTAURANT SCORES:

66 MURPHY’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

66 MEXICAL RESTAURANT

66 ASO ROCK RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

66 CUZCO CUISINE

63 LA AUTENTICA LH TAQUERIA

FOOD INSPECTION SCORE:

• 100-80: Meets Consumer Health Division standards

• 79-70: Requires follow-up inspection within 30 days

• 69-60: Requires follow-up inspection within 10 days

• 59 and below: Requires followup inspection within 24 hours

THE REASONS we choose the school district our children attend is difficult to quantify, but the results of our choices are evident from data. We’ve created a snapshot of the students and teachers that make up Richardson ISD, based on data from the Texas Education Agency’s 2017-2018 Texas Academic Performance Report.