The Worst Places to Eat in Richardson Last Month

Graphic by City of Richardson.

The City of Richardson is rightly regarded as having some of the best, most diverse, dining options in north Texas ("Eat & Drink"). But that doesn't mean every restaurant in Richardson exceeds in every measure. Here is a list of the ten worst places to eat in Richardson last month, based on the City of Richardson's Health Department Restaurant Scores for last month. Not all Richardson restaurants are included in this ranking. Each month, different restaurants are visited by the Health Department. Only those visited last month are ranked here. Only the bottom ten are shown^*.

^* This month, thirteen restaurants are listed. Five restaurants tied for ninth place with a score of 81, which is objectively good.

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Note that being on this list doesn't necessarily make a restaurant an objectively bad place to eat. These restaurants are just relatively worse compared to other restaurants inspected during the same month and that received higher scores from the Health Department inspectors.

Of all the restaurants inspected by the Richardson Health Department last month, here are the ten lowest scores (or more than ten in case of a tie).

Restaurant	Address	Inspection	Score
Red Hot Indo-Chinese	744 S Central Expy	2025-06-05	70
Flaming Buffet	1300 E Belt Line	2025-06-25	75
Addis Abeba Ethiopian	100 S Central Expy	2025-06-25	78
Asian Buffet	730 W Spring Valley	2025-06-04	78
Braum's Ice Cream	1260 W Campbell	2025-06-06	78
Sueno Modern Mex-Tex	800 W Arapaho	2025-06-16	78
Baleadas Express	1486 W Spring Valley	2025-06-10	79
Saigon Block	2150 E Arapaho Rd	2025-06-25	80
Another Time & Place	925 Abrams Rd	2025-06-25	81
Canyon Creek Country Club	625 W Lookout Dr	2025-06-18	81
Cuzco Peruvian	100 S Central Expy	2025-06-24	81
Fiesta Mart	1332 S Plano Rd	2025-06-20	81
The Dive on 75	215 N Central Expy	2025-06-10	81

According to the Health Department: "Scores are based on a scale of zero to 100. A score of 90 to 100 is excellent; 80 to 89 is good; 70 to 79 is acceptable; and 60 to 69 is marginal. A score below 60 may be grounds for the closing of an establishment or other enforcement action."

I first started commenting on restaurant scores way back in 2010. I wrote then, "Diners have to search out inspection scores buried in the city's website, if they are even aware that the scores exist at all. I'd like to see restaurants prominently display their most recent inspection score where patrons can see it before walking in the door." The Wheel's motto is "Not Being Listened to Since 2006." Health inspection scores are still not required to be posted in the windows of restaurants. That tells me that my streak of not being listened to is still alive and well. I just hope diners at some of these restaurants are as well.

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"Neglected kitchens
Serve up questionable food.
Dine here if you dare."
—h/t ChatGPT