{"id":427665,"date":"2026-09-06T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427665\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:26:10","slug":"three-tarrant-restaurants-closed-after-health-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427665\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Tarrant restaurants closed after health inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Tarrant County restaurants were closed and others had problems with rodents in the latest round of county health inspections, according to the inspection report.<\/p>\n

The inspection database compiled by the Star-Telegram contains data from Aug. 16 through Aug. 29 and 268 inspections.<\/p>\n

Tarrant County\u2019s health inspections function on a 100-point scale where a score of 100 is considered perfect and a score of 70 is considered to be extremely poor. Tarrant County inspects and scores all food-service establishments in the county except for those in Fort Worth, Arlington, Euless and North Richland Hills.<\/p>\n

Three establishments were closed:<\/p>\n

Navajo Mini Mart, located at 7028 Navajo Trail<\/a> in Lake Worth, had a score of 63. Management voluntarily closed the store until a three-compartment sink could be fixed to drain properly. A follow-up inspection found that a rodent infestation had damaged food products. Inspectors determined after a second follow-up that the store should be allowed to reopen.Rice Xpress, located at 6036 Lake Worth Boulevard<\/a> in Lake Worth, had a score of 76. The establishment voluntarily closed due to a lack of refrigeration and later reopened with a score of 87.Bigs Bar And Grill \/ Dough Bros, located at 1601 Airport Freeway<\/a> in Bedford, had a score of 84. The kitchen was ordered to close due to a cockroach infestation affecting food. The establishment was approved to reopen after two follow-up inspections.<\/p>\n

Four establishments had issues with roaches:<\/p>\n

Some data analysis in this story was conducted using AI. For more information on how the Star-Telegram and McClatchy newsrooms are using AI, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are the inspection scores and violations for restaurants that Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH) inspected for Aug. 16th – Aug. 29th, 2026. TCPH inspects and scores all restaurants in Tarrant County except for those located in Fort Worth, Arlington, Euless and North Richland Hills. Scores are based on a 100-point scale. When the score is below 70, a follow-up inspection is required. To search the restaurant inspections, type in a keyword or restaurant name. You can also sort by score.<\/p>\n

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Steve Wilson swilson@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Tarrant County restaurants were closed and others had problems with rodents in the latest round of county…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-427665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427665","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=427665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}