Food 4 Thought Headlines


Food 4 Thought (07/02)   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol had to make a return visit to a Rio Hondo pizzeria for all the wrong reasons.

Food 4 Thought Top and Low Performers List Updated (07/02)   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol has updated our popular Top and Low Performers list.

Food 4 Thought (06/25)   

Two Pharr restaurants are the bottom of this week's list.

Food 4 Thought (06/18)   Video Glyph

Two McAllen restaurants are at the bottom of the barrel but luckily five other Valley restaurants picked up the slack.

Food 4 Thought Top and Low Performers List Updated (06/18)   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol has updated our popular Top and Low Performers list.

Food 4 Thought Schools List Updated (06/18)   Video Glyph

School's out for the summer but the Food Patrol is still hard at work getting health reports.

Food 4 Thought (06/11)   Video Glyph

It was a bad week for a Chinese buffet in Harlingen after receiving 49 demerits and closing its doors voluntarily.

Food 4 Thought Top and Low Performers List Updated (06/11)   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol has updated our popular Top and Low Performers list.

Food 4 Thought Schools List Updated (06/11)   Video Glyph

School's out for the summer but the Food Patrol is still hard at work getting health reports.

Food 4 Thought (06/04)   Video Glyph

Delis at two McAllen gas stations are the bottom of the list for this week's Food 4 Thought.

Food 4 Thought Top and Low Performers List Updated (06/04)   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol has updated our popular Top and Low Performers list.

Food 4 Thought Schools List Updated (06/04)   Video Glyph

School's out for the summer but the Food Patrol is still working and receiving health reports for school cafeterias.

Food 4 Thought (05/28): Willacy County   Video Glyph

The results are in for Willacy County restaurants and they were surprising.

Food 4 Thought (05/21): Starr County   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol hit Starr County on Wednesday.

Food 4 Thought Top and Low Performers Updated (05/21)   

The Food Patrol has updated our Top and Low Performers list with restaurants from Starr County.

Food 4 Thought Schools List Updated (05/21)   

It's Wednesday again and the Food Patrol has delivered another round of health reports from school cafeterias.

Food 4 Thought (05/14)   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol found visual proof of a rodent problem at a McAllen restaurant.

Food 4 Thought Schools List Updated (05/14)   

It's Wednesday again and the Food Patrol has delivered another round of health reports from school cafeterias.

Food 4 Thought - Top and Low Perfomers Lists   

The Food Patrol has created downloadable lists for Rio Grande Valley restaurants that ranked as our "Top Performers" and "Low Performers".

Food 4 Thought (05/07)   Video Glyph

The popular bar and grill in McAllen got its photos taken but for all the wrong reasons.

Updated: Food 4 Thought Schools List (05/07)   

The Food Patrol has not stopped looking at how Rio Grande Valley school cafeterias did in their health inspections.

Food 4 Thought: Dirty Lemons   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol went undercover at 10 Valley restaurants to see which ones are serving up 'dirty lemons'.

Food 4 Thought (04/30)   Video Glyph

Health inspectors found "unwanted toppings" at an ice cream shop inside Pharr's El Centro Mall.

Dozens of schools added to Food 4 Thought list   

The Food Patrol is continuing to catalog health inspection scores from school cafeterias across the Rio Grande Valley.

Food 4 Thought Schools List Updated   Video Glyph

The Food Patrol has updated the list on Wednesday, April 23 by adding schools from Mission and Brownsville.

Food 4 Thought (04/23)   Video Glyph

The good, the bad and the dirty dining for Wednesday, April 23.

Food 4 Thought (04/16)   Video Glyph

When a Valley college served up dirty dining this week, the Food Patrol sprung into action.

Food 4 Thought (03/26)   Video Glyph

It's not a good week for a Weslaco buffet and another Mid-Valley restaurant claiming to have the best Mexican-American flare.

Food 4 Thought (04/02)   Video Glyph

Two Edinburg restaurants share the same street and the same low performer status but not the same attitude.

Food 4 Thought (03/12)   Video Glyph

A Mission Wing Stop rates as one of this week's three Top Performers while Edinburg's Tortilleria El Grano de Oro was caught keeping beef heads unrefrigerated.

Food 4 Thought (03/05)   

A McAllen Chinese Buffet throws the food patrol a curveball by voluntarily shutting down. 

Food 4 Thought (02/27)   

Two Brownsville restaurants get poor marks by the Food Patrol while inspectors closed one Weslaco restaurant for 24 hours.

Food 4 Thought (02/20)   

Shock and horror. That's how you describe a Brownsville restaurant that scored the most demerits of 2008.

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Ryan Wolf

Ryan Wolf is an anchor and reporter for KGBT. His series "Food 4 Thought" airs every Wednesday at 10 p.m.

 

Does your school keep it clean?

The Food Patrol has compiled an exclusive list of Valley schools cafeterias and how they did in their health inspections. More schools coming soon!


Top Performers List

The Food Patrol has compiled an exclusive list of the cleanest Valley restaurants with zero demerits. They are are our TOP PERFORMERS. The Food Patrol has made a pledge to update the list every week.


Low Performers List

The Food Patrol has compiled an exclusive list of dirty restaurants. We've combed through health reports to reveal their demerits and health violations. These are are the Valley's LOW PERFORMERS. The Food Patrol has made a pledge to update the list every week.


Health Department Contact Numbers

If you have a complaint against a restaurant here's a list of phone numbers for local health departments.


How Do We Get The Restaurant Reports?

Who does the inspections? How is the score calculated?