PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Every week, Arizona’s Family looks up restaurants recently inspected by Maricopa County’s Environmental Services Department. Restaurants with some of the highest numbers of “risk factors,” considered major health code violations by inspectors, are selected for our Dirty Dining Report. For more details on the restaurant inspection scoring system, visit Maricopa County’s website .

Here are the Valley restaurants that did not make the grade for Oct. 22, 2025:

Restaurant Sinaloa - 45 W Broadway Rd, Mesa

3 violations:

Pans of raw shrimp stored above cooked beef

Dirty knives stored as clean

Bucket of salsa kept past discard date

Carniceria Ponderosa - 1909 W Thunderbird Rd, Phoenix

3 violations:

No paper towels at hand wash sink

Pork skins and fried shrim

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