The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department conducts the permitting and inspection of over 4000 food establishments in Austin, several local municipalities and rural Travis County.

The inspection scores are published on the City of Austin data portal.

This website allows you to search the restaurant score data.

Help

Just type your search criteria into the box and click the "Search" button.

You can search on a restaurant name, street address, city, or zip.

Searches are case insensitive. For instance, "LAMAR" and "lamar" match the same things.

Searches must match exactly. For instance, "MoPac Expressway" will not match "MoPac Expy".

The search tries to be smart about punctuation and pluralization. For instance, "Starbucks" also will match "Starbuck's". For that matter, just "Starbuck" will match both as well.

For best results, simple queries such as "Trudys" or "Anderson" work best.

Resources

Visit the City of Austin Health and Human Services Department for more information about restaurant inspection and scoring.

Visit the City of Austin Data Portal for more information about the city's open data initiative. The source data for this site is here.

About atx Scores

This project was conceived at the demo hackathon held at the ATX Civic Tech Expo, Thursday, May 23, 2013 at Austin City Hall.

Project contributors include: Aaron Hodin, Chip Rosenthal, Harold Daniel, Herb Watkins, Hùng X. Lê, Ksenia Zemlyanova, Kye Hittle, Patrick Hughey, and Sarah Lambert.

This project is open source, and you can participate by downloading at: https://github.com/open-austin/atx-restaurant-scores.

More information about the app development can be found here: http://atxhack.wikispaces.com/Restaurant+Scores

About Open Austin

Open Austin is a local, volunteer advocacy group. We advocate for open government, open data, and civic technology. This service was created by our volunteer hackers, and presented as a public service.