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Texas restaurant inspections, explained
Texas has no statewide restaurant grade. Cities and counties inspect their own restaurants under the Texas Food Establishment Rules, and only a few publish the scores in bulk: Austin, El Paso and Arlington. Here is how each one scores, what its bands mean, and where the 5,949 places in our data with one of those scores stood at their latest inspection.
Three cities, three scales
All three score out of 100, higher is better, and each has its own way of reading the number. We show each score with the city's own band, as the city published it, and compute no grade of our own.
Austin
Austin Public Health scores each inspection out of 100 under the Texas Food Establishment Rules, and its open data sorts every score into a band: Green for 90 and above, Yellow for 70 to 89, and Red below 70. The data covers the last three years.
- Green 1,576 places
- Yellow 1,234 places
- Red 6 places
2,816 places in our data, latest score through September 24, 2026. The city's records.
El Paso
The City of El Paso scores inspections out of 100 for the city and the county towns it inspects. In the city's words, a score of 70 or above is passing, a score of 60 or below starts a closure, and a violation that poses an imminent threat to public health can close a place whatever the score. The city calls its online scores a summary; full reports are by open-records request.
- Passing 2,291 places
- Below 70 0 places
2,291 places in our data, latest score through October 16, 2026. The city's records.
Arlington
The City of Arlington scores inspections out of 100 and gives each establishment a letter grade it must post: A for 91 to 100, B for 81 to 90, C for 71 to 80, and F below 70. Its open data has each establishment's latest inspection.
- A 390 places
- B 347 places
- C 91 places
- F 14 places
842 places in our data, latest score through October 16, 2026. The city's records.
One inspection is a snapshot of one day, and conditions can change quickly. We don't list places by their scores here; the web search can sort a list by each city's latest score, as published.
The rest of Texas
Houston's open data stops in 2015. Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Plano publish inspection results one search at a time, and the Dallas and Fort Worth search pages block automated access, so their scores aren't here. Look a place up in the Texas Eats web app for its TABC licenses and, in the three cities above, its latest score and recent history.
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