Inquirer's Riled Restaurant Reviews

A Food Issue wouldn't be complete without some restaurant reviews, so The Inquirer has plucked five New York City eateries from an unusual list: the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's restaurant inspections.

It's a fully functional site. You can search by restaurant, borough or neighborhood. So we searched, mostly by name. And what we found were some frightening "quotes" (in that good, old Zagat way) of some of our favorite places to eat. One each day this week.

A point of reference: the lower a restaurant's score, the better. Higher than 28, and it gets disgusting. And while all our joints score at least in the 20's, don't think that's average. Quite the contrary. Danielle's Pizza Shop in the Bronx scored an encouraging 2 points.

(Kitchen from flickr.)