Restaurant Health Inspection Coverage in Virginia
The Safe Plate publishes restaurant health inspection records for Virginia exactly as the government health department that issued them publishes them. We do not inspect restaurants, and we do not verify, score or endorse the records an agency publishes.
Health departments these records come from
Descriptions of each agency's grading system are written by The Safe Plate to explain the records, and are not statements made by the agency.
- Arlington County, VA — Issuing agency: Arlington County Public Health Division — What these records include: No letter grade or numeric score shown. Routine and Risk Factor inspections from January 2024 onward are included. Violations cite the FDA Food Code section and the inspector's observation, plus corrective action taken where noted. Covers all of Arlington County.
- City of Alexandria, VA — Issuing agency: Alexandria Health Department — What these records include: No letter grade or numeric score shown. Routine and Risk Factor inspections from January 2024 onward are included. Violations cite the FDA Food Code section and the inspector's observation, plus corrective action taken where noted. Covers the independent City of Alexandria.
- Fairfax County, VA — Issuing agency: Fairfax County Health Department — What these records include: No letter grade or numeric score shown. Violations cite the FDA Food Code section, title, and inspector observation, Priority, Priority Foundation, or Core. Only Routine inspections from January 2024 onward are included. Covers Fairfax County plus the independent City of Fairfax and City of Falls Church.
- Virginia — Issuing agency: Virginia Dept. of Health, Environmental Health — What these records include: No letter grade or numeric score shown. Only Routine inspections from January 2024 onward are included. Violations are FDA food code citations with the inspector's description, not including corrective action notes. Covers Virginia outside Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the City of Alexandria, those 3 Northern Virginia localities run their own separate systems (see the Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax County sources).
Counties covered
Each county below links to the inspection records we publish for it.
Cities with their own page
Each city below links to the inspection records we publish for it. We cover more cities than these — a city where only a handful of records have been published is still searchable, it just does not have a page of its own yet.
Checking these records yourself
Every record we show is published by the agency named beside it. Our Data Sources page lists each agency and links to the official portal it publishes on, so you can check any record against the source.
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