Restaurant Watch: Aug. 20-27, 2026

Twin Hickory Tavern, 1420 North Parham Road – During a risk factor inspection on Aug. 20, inspectors found that the person in charge could not provide verifiable proof of employee health training and food-handling staff questioned about the policy could not name the six major foodborne illnesses and their symptoms; found no hand soap at the bar hand sink; observed the person in charge rinse a contaminated knife in a cookline hand sink, a drink pitcher stored in the bar hand sink, and soda-dispenser lines draining directly into a hand sink in the upstairs kitchen; celery stored directly on racks in an upstairs bar reach-in cooler; raw fish and shrimp stored above cooked noodles in a lowboy cooler and raw fish stored behind sliced turkey in a drawer; chlorine sanitizer measuring at 0 ppm in the bar dish machine; three-dimensional brown buildup in the upstairs bar ice machine, three-dimensional pink and dark-colored buildup in the Coke machine’s ice dispenser at server station, and dried food debris on a can opener blade; milk at 46 degrees in a serving-station lowboy cooler, sliced tomatoes measuring between 38 and 45 degrees and filled above the make table’s fill line, and portioned shredded cheese at 59 degrees stored several inches above the fill line; chicken breading without a time stamp; blackened tuna on a specials menu without a consumer advisory statement and salmon that could be ordered undercooked without an asterisk linking it to the consumer advisory; sanitizer, glass cleaner and stainless steel cleaner stored next to food and food-contact surfaces; sanitizer spray bottles without identifying labels; and no no-smoking sign posted in public view.

Little Caesars, 4007 Mechanicsville Turnpike – During a routine inspection on Aug. 20, inspectors observed dried food debris on the can opener blade and base; staff working with food without hair restraints; a torn door gasket on the middle warming unit; dust, dirt, grease or dried food debris on point-of-sale cables and cords, wire storage racks throughout the kitchen, reach-in freezer door gaskets, a speed rack and door gaskets in the walk-in cooler, wire racks and interior bottoms of food warmers, the top of the pizza oven, hand sinks and faucet handles, and three-compartment sink faucet handles; and stained ceiling tiles in the dining area and kitchen, mildew on the wall behind the three-compartment sink and a dirty floor drain beneath the sink.

New Hunan Gourmet, 3107 Mechanicsville Turnpike – During a routine inspection on Aug. 20, inspectors observed a bucket stored in a kitchen hand sink; rusty wire storage racks in the walk-in cooler; food stored in and covered with plastic grocery bags; cardboard being reused throughout the kitchen, including cardboard egg liners; dirty and stained black walk-in cooler door gaskets; a staff bathroom hand sink draining very slowly; a direct plumbing connection beneath the three-compartment sink; a cracked floor tile in front of the hot line, damaged floor coving beneath the three-compartment sink and a heavily stained kitchen ceiling tile; and dried food stains on kitchen walls, grease on walls behind the reach-in cooler and hot line, and a dirty wall beneath the three-compartment sink…

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