Roaches and flies found at downtown Raleigh restaurant: Latest inspections
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- Triangle restaurants are inspected up to four times a year.
- A downtown Raleigh restaurant received a B grade.
- A Durham restaurant received a B grade.
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 from April 14-20.
Wake County sanitation scores
The Wake County inspection management system shows 76 restaurant inspections were completed April 14-20. One restaurant received a B grade (a score of at least 80% but lower than 90%):
Inka Grill Peruvian Cuisine (16 W. Martin St., Raleigh) received a score of 84% on Thursday, April 16.
- The restaurant was in violation of 23 standards.
- Violations include a live roach crawling up a kitchen wall, a dead roach and fruit flies in the “back kitchen hall space,” raw chicken stored above cooked rice in a freezer, strainers stored as clean has food residue on them and cooked beef didn’t have a date, among other items.
- The restaurant previously scored an A grade in October 2025.
Durham County sanitation scores
The Durham County inspection management system shows 30 restaurant inspections were completed April 14-20. One restaurant received a B grade (a score of at least 80% but lower than 90%):
Thai 55 (2223 NC 54, Suite Q, Durham) received a score of 81% on Tuesday, April 14.
- The restaurant was in violation of 15 standards.
- Violations include multiple employees not washing their hands including one employee handling food who then handled dirty dishes and did not wash thier hands before returning to food prep work, multiple items improperly stored and multiple cookied items did not have dates, among other violations.
- The restaurant previously scored a B grade in Feburary 2026, its fourth in a row.
Orange County sanitation scores
The Orange County inspection management system shows 10 restaurant inspections were completed April 14-20. All received an A grade.
Johnston County sanitation scores
The Johnston County inspection management system shows 23 restaurant inspections were completed April 14-20. All received an A grade.
Chatham County sanitation scores
The Chatham County inspection management system shows five restaurant inspections were completed April 14-20. All received an A grade.
