Dead cockroach & dirty dishes in Triangle restaurant: Scores (July 15)

The News & Observer publishes a weekly roundup of restaurant sanitation scores to keep you up-to-date on the health grades at Triangle dining spots.

Sanitation scores and their corresponding letter grades are used in North Carolina to assess restaurants’ adherence to rules and standards intended to mitigate and prevent the spread of food-borne illnesses.

You’ve likely seen sanitation grade cards at restaurants you’ve visited, and The N&O previously explained what those scores mean and how they’re calculated.

Here are sanitation scores in Triangle counties for the week of July 8-14.

Wake County sanitation scores

The Wake County inspection management system shows that 135 restaurant inspections were completed July 8-14.

• All restaurants received an A grade, or a score of at least 90%.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Wake County at bit.ly/4dGbJN3.

Durham County sanitation scores

The Durham County inspection management system shows 51 restaurant inspections were completed July 8-14.

• Most restaurants received an A grade.

• Three restaurants received a B grade, or a score of at least 80% but lower than 90%.

Koki (104 City Hall Plaza #101 in Durham) received a score of 87.5% during an inspection on Friday, July 11.

• The restaurant was in violation of 15 standards.

• Violations included raw chicken stored above salsa and dressing inside a tall reach-in, several cartons of milk that had a manufacture used by date of Sunday, April 6 that were opened on Saturday, July 6. There were also numerous cartons of liquid eggs with a date of Monday, April 21 that were opened.

• The restaurant previously scored 93% in April 2025 and 96% in September 2024.

Los Tres Mexican Restaurant (6905 Fayetteville Rd. in Durham) received a score of 87.5% during an inspection on Thursday, July 10.

• The restaurant was in violation of 15 standards.

• Violations included a non-gloved employee slicing lemons, a can opener stored as clean was found in the holster with food debris on the food contact surface and black residue on ceiling tiles near stove and flip top area.

• The restaurant previously scored 93.5% in March 2025 and 94.5% in November 2024.

Counting House (111 Corcoran St. in Durham) received a score of 88% during an inspection on Wednesday, July 9.

• The restaurant was in violation of 12 standards.

• Violations included several dishes stored as clean were visually soiled and still had the stickers still intact, a slicer in the bar area had food debris on the blade and surrounding parts, along with a dead cockroach near the back ice machine.

• The restaurant previously scored 92.5% in April 2025 and 95% in September 2024.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Durham County at bit.ly/3pVQfpG.

Orange County sanitation scores

The Orange County inspection management system shows that eight restaurant inspections were completed July 8-14.

• All restaurants received an A grade.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Orange County at bit.ly/3eQqpxc.

Johnston County sanitation scores

The Johnston County inspection management system shows that ten restaurant inspections were completed July 8-14.

• All restaurants received an A grade.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Johnston County at bit.ly/4eEDuGr.

Chatham County sanitation scores

The Chatham County inspections management system shows that nine restaurant inspections were completed July 8-14.

• All restaurants received an A grade.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Chatham County at bit.ly/3JfiHwq.

Chyna Blackmon

The Charlotte Observer

Chyna Blackmon was a service journalism reporter for The Charlotte Observer. A native of the Carolinas, she grew up in Columbia, SC, and graduated from Queens University of Charlotte. She’s also worked in local television news in Charlotte, NC, and Richmond, VA. Support my work with a digital subscription