{"id":306713,"date":"2026-05-24T05:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:39:14","slug":"rats-roaches-found-in-latest-dallas-restaurant-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306713\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats, roaches found in latest Dallas restaurant inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Inspectors observed rats and roaches in Dallas food establishments during the latest round of city health inspections, according to the inspection report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The report compiled by the Star-Telegram contains data from May 3 through May 16, 2026, and 402 inspections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas\u2019 health inspections function on a 100-point system, where a score of 100 is considered perfect and anything below 69 is considered failing and must be reinspected within 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Inspectors noted the presence of roaches at four establishments:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sweet Basil, located at 17610 Midway Road, had a score of 85. Dead roaches were found in a dry storage closet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tuyet Tofu, located at 9780 Walnut Street, had a score of 92. Both live and dead roaches were found at the location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Tortilla &amp; Tamale Factory, located at 309 North Marsalis Avenue, had a score of 93. An inspector observed a live cockroach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Burger King, located at 11404 East Northwest Highway, had a score of 96. A dead cockroach was found on the floor near a prep table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A rat was found at Luna\u2019s Tortillas, located at 7406 Harry Hines Boulevard. The establishment had an overall score of 75.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here are the inspection scores and violations for restaurants within the city limits of Dallas for May 3rd &#8211; May 16th, 2026. A score of 100 is a perfect score and 70 is considered to be extremely poor. Scores below 80 require a re-inspection, and below 60 require closure and inspection before reopening. To search the restaurant inspections, type in a keyword or restaurant name. You can also sort by score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Steve Wilson swilson@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspectors observed rats and roaches in Dallas food establishments during the latest round of city health inspections, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,28615,28613],"class_list":["post-306713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-health-inspections","tag-perfect-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306713","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=306713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}