Ashburn Restaurant Inspections: 6 Violations At 1 Location

ASHBURN, VA — Officials from the Loudoun County Health Department inspected multiple food storage and preparation businesses in Ashburn and Sterling from Feb. 23 to March 1, including several restaurants with violations.

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, many inspections are being conducted virtually. So, the listed violations may not be an all-encompassing rundown of all the violations at a particular establishment.

Violations at restaurants typically focus on factors that can contribute to food contamination. The local health department also performs a re-inspection to ensure that possible violations have been corrected.

For every observed violation, the inspector provides a specific corrective action that can be completed to rectify the violation. Sometimes these are simple, and violations can be corrected during the course of the inspection.

• Moby Dick House of Kabob, 20020 Ashbrook Common Plaza #103 Ashburn, VA 20147
  • Inspected: Feb. 23
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 2
  • Violations:
    • Raw gyro beef holding over lettuce in small prep cooler.
    • Rice in small warmer hot holding at improper temperatures.
• Ashburn Village Inn, 20020 Ashbrook Commons Plaza #117 Ashburn, VA 20147
  • Inspected: Feb. 23
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 3
  • Violations:
    • Paper towels not provided at bar hand-sink.
    • No label on spray bottle of sanitizer.
    • No test strips for chlorine sanitizer.
• Yen's Kitchen and Sushi Bar, 44640 Waxpool Rd #100 Ashburn, VA 20147
  • Inspected: Feb. 23
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 2
  • Violations:
    • Many personal items observed stored in hand sink next to dish machine.
    • A food temperature measuring device was not available to monitor internal food temps for cooling and cold holding.
• Popeye's, 44061 Ashburn Shopping Plaza Ashburn, VA 20147
  • Inspected: March 1
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 3
  • Violations:
    • Person in charge is not ensuring foods are cooled by using proper methods and is not overseeing the dish room staff to ensure sanitizer levels are safe.
    • Improper cooling of containers of rice. Five containers of rice observed cooling in reach in coolers with lids secured. Condensation observed.
    • Quat sanitizer at 3 comp sink above 500ppm. Quat sanitizer at bucket above 500ppm.
• China Village, 32 Pidgeon Hill Dr Sterling, VA 20165
  • Inspected: Feb. 25
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 6
  • Violations:
    • No handsoap at the hand sink next to the three basin sink.
    • A container of raw eggs was found stored above a container of ready-to-eat tofu.
    • The facility is not sanitizing dished, equipment, utensils, and food contact surfaces after washing/rinsing.
    • Several food items kept longer than 24 hours do not have date marks.
    • Spray bottles of sanitizer that did not have labels were found in the kitchen.
    • Single-use articles were observed being washed for re-use.
• Drnk Qwench, 21385 Epicerie Plaza #105 Sterling, VA 20164
  • Inspected: Feb. 25
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 5
  • Violations:
    • A container of deli ham in the front cooler does not have a date label.
    • A spray bottle containing a cleaning agent was found without a label.
    • Utensils at the coffee bar were observed in a dipper well that was full of stagnant water.
    • Test strips for the sanitizer at the three basin sink are compromised and are not accurately measuring the concentration of the sanitizer. Also, there are no test strips to measure the concentration of the Veggie wash (provided by ECOLAB).
    • The deflector on the ice machine in the back area was observed with soil residue.
• El Mercadito Hispano II, 250 Sterling Boulevard Sterling, VA 20164
  • Inspected: Feb. 25
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 2
  • Violations:
    • The internal temperature of cooled chicken at stove was 78 F, bee was 84 F while stored next to stove
    • Raw shell eggs were observed stored at room temperature to be used when ordered without any time control or markings when food should be discarded.
• Chinaway, 156-H Enterprise Street Sterling, VA 20164
  • Inspected: Feb. 26
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 2
  • Violations:
    • Raw chicken observed placed over broccoli in reach in refrigerator.
    • Faucet for cold water in hand sink next to the three compartment sink observed broken.
• Little Caesars, 22405 Enterprise Street #101 101 Sterling, VA 20164
  • Inspected: Feb. 26
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 2
  • Violations:
    • Facility has no clean up plan for vomitus and diarrheal incidents.
    • Employee observed washing hands at 3 compartment sink and did not use soap. Employee then walked to hand sink to get paper towel to dry hands.