{"id":263500,"date":"2026-04-23T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:22:13","slug":"arlington-tx-taqueria-fails-a-restaurant-health-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263500\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington TX taqueria fails a restaurant health inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Arlington restaurant had a failing score in the latest round of<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/opendata.arlingtontx.gov\/datasets\/food-establishments\/explore?location=32.702286%2C-97.136700%2C11.66&amp;showTable=true\"> city health inspections<\/a>, according to the inspection reports.<\/p>\n<p>The reports compiled by the Star-Telegram contain health data from April 5 through April 18 and 95 inspections.<\/p>\n<p>Arlington\u2019s city health inspections function on a 100-point scale: A score of 100 is considered to be perfect and a score of 70 is considered to be extremely poor.<\/p>\n<p>Taqueria Tepito, located at 3330 Matlock Road, had a score of 66. Inspectors observed several critical violations, including improper cold and hot holding temperatures, unsafe food storage, and inadequate handwashing and glove practices, city officials said. An inspector also noted physical deficiencies like equipment in need of repair.<\/p>\n<p>Taqueria Tepito also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/entertainment\/restaurants\/article305932421.html\">failed an inspection<\/a> in April 2025, according to city records.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is set to undergo a follow-up inspection soon, a city spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:McClatchy Sans;margin-bottom: 8px;\">Here are the inspection scores and violations for restaurants within the city limits of Arlington for April 5th &#8211; April 18th, 2026 A score of 100 is a perfect score and 70 is considered to be extremely poor. Reinspections will be conducted for restaurants that score 75 or less. If serious health and sanitation violations are considered an imminent health hazard, the restaurant will be closed until the identified health hazard has been mitigated. To search the restaurant inspections, type in a restaurant name. You can also sort by score.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776986533_589_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"visualization\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Wilson swilson@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n<p>Some data analysis in this story was conducted using AI.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776986533_654_LillieDavidson-Profile Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Lillie Davidson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillie Davidson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Lillie Davidson is a breaking news reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She graduated from TCU in 2025 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism, is fluent in Spanish, and can complete a crossword in five minutes.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Arlington restaurant had a failing score in the latest round of city health inspections, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-263500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}