San Antonio restaurant inspections: June 19, 2015

Here are the 10 San Antonio restaurants cited with 14 or more demerits in the most recent health inspection reports for June. Here are the 10 San Antonio restaurants cited with 14 or more demerits in the most recent health inspection reports for June. Photo: Google Street View/Maps Photo: Google Street View/Maps Image 1 of / 60 Caption Close San Antonio restaurant inspections: June 19, 2015 1 / 60 Back to Gallery

SAN ANTONIO — Food establishment inspections can be unforgiving, and this week the dirtiest restaurant list snagged one of the hottest restaurants in town.

Hot Joy may be getting big accolades for their fare, but the latest round of San Antonio Food and Environmental Health Services inspections paints a different picture.

The popular Southtown eatery was cited for having a cold hold unit that was about 20 degrees off, foods not being protected from cross contamination and it appears that they do not have a valid food permit, according to the inspection.

But they weren't the biggest violators on this week's report. Martha's Mexican Restaurant on the North Side topped this week's list with 31 demerits.

See all the highlights of this week's dirtiest restaurant list in the slideshow above.

* Dirtiest Restaurants: May 2015

* Dirtiest Restaurants: April 2015

The San Antonio Express-News examines hundreds of restaurants inspections each week conducted by the San Antonio Food and Environmental Health Services division to bring you the eateries with 14 or more demerits.

The demerit system is based upon the number of violations found during a regular food establishment inspection. There are three categories of demerits and each are assigned a demerit score of 5, 4 or 3 points, according to the health division.

Scores and demerits listed are only representative of the state of the restaurant at the time of inspection and are surveyed at random.

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