For an Indianapolis restaurant inspection report, use the Marion County Public Health Department’s Food Inspections portal. Search by establishment name, street address, or license number, confirm the correct licensed operation, and select View Inspections. The history then separates the event type, date, result, violations, and full report. Do not treat the portal’s Risk number as a restaurant score: no official scoring legend for that field was provided on the portal pages checked for this guide.
At a glance
- Score: report only. The portal shows the report and a risk level, with no grade.
- Posting delay: reports go online 10 days after the inspection date, as state law requires (MCPHD).
- Most serious violations: Priority, then Priority Foundation, then Core. These terms replaced critical and non-critical when 410 IAC 7-26 took effect on April 16, 2025.
- Checked: Marion County Public Health and Indiana Department of Health pages checked October 21, 2026.
Restaurant Inspection Check tool · rules checked October 21–23, 2026
Inspection score reader
Pick the program that inspected the restaurant, then enter what the report or door sign shows. The reader explains it on that agency's own scale and tells you what usually happens next.
MCPHD is the food-inspection authority for Marion County. Indiana’s local health department page says its coverage includes Indianapolis, Beech Grove, Lawrence, Speedway, and Southport. That boundary matters when a postal city or nearby address suggests a different regulator.
Match the licensed operation before reading its history
Start with the physical address rather than the business name alone. Names can change, duplicate names can appear, and one property can contain more than one food operation. If the first search is too broad, add part of the street address or use the posted license number.
The portal’s basic search accepts a name, address, or license. Advanced search adds separate fields for name, license, address, ZIP code, Risk, establishment type, and inspection-date range. A result row shows the license, establishment type, name, address, Risk, and a View Inspections action.
Marion County’s current Food Safety code explains why identity matching deserves care. Section 8-201 requires separate licenses for separate food establishments and for each kitchen when one location has multiple kitchens. It also says a Marion County food-establishment license is not required when the operation is subject to inspection by another government agency. Therefore, a missing row may mean the search terms are wrong, the operation has a separate license, or another agency holds the record. It does not by itself mean the facility has never been inspected.
After opening the correct row, read the history in date order. The useful fields are:
| Portal field | How to use it |
|---|---|
| Type | Distinguishes a routine inspection from a recheck, complaint, field activity, or another event |
| Date | Anchors the event; compare it with the inspection that came before and any later follow-up |
| Result | Describes that dated event, not the restaurant’s permanent condition |
| Violations | Opens the item-level findings associated with the event |
| Report | Preserves the fuller inspection document when available |
Save the license number and exact address with any report you download. Chapter 8 says a license cannot be transferred to another person or location. If the address stays the same but the license changes, keep the two histories separate unless the agency confirms how they relate.
Risk is a filter, not a published restaurant grade
The search results include a numeric Risk field, but the public portal does not provide a legend that turns it into a score, letter grade, violation count, or safety rating. Use it only as a portal field unless MCPHD publishes a definition for the specific value.
The agency’s current Inspection Reports page instead tells readers to examine violations. It identifies five broad foodborne-illness risk-factor areas, including personal hygiene, holding temperatures, cross-contamination, cooking temperatures, and food sources. It also says violations are designated critical or non-critical to reflect severity.
Those local report labels should be preserved as shown. For help comparing an item’s code, description, severity, correction, and repeat status, use the site’s guide to reading food inspection violations. Do not reconstruct a grade from the number of rows or assume that a longer report automatically means a worse current condition.
Keep local severity labels separate from Indiana’s current code categories
Indiana’s 410 IAC 7-26 update explains the letter tags attached to requirements. P (Priority) identifies a direct means of controlling an illness or injury hazard. Pf (Priority Foundation) identifies the supporting measures that make those controls work, such as staff training or required records. Core covers requirements outside those two groups, typically for sanitation, day-to-day operations or upkeep.
These categories help explain the rule behind a finding. The county’s explanatory page still uses critical/non-critical wording, while the state update describes the newer categories. Do not silently recode an older or differently labeled report into a one-to-one match. Keep the terminology that appears on the dated local report and use the applicable code section to understand the requirement.
The full Indiana rule also sets correction limits. Priority and Priority Foundation items ordinarily must be corrected at the inspection. Depending on the hazard and the work needed, the regulator may allow up to 72 hours for a Priority item or 15 calendar days for a Priority Foundation item or HACCP-plan deviation. A Core item is due by the agreed date, no later than 90 calendar days, unless the regulator approves a written longer schedule because no health hazard exists or will result.
These are correction windows, not promised reinspection or reopening dates. The portal says rechecks are conducted to ensure compliance, so connect a recheck to the earlier inspection by date and cited item rather than assuming every correction produces a separate visit.
A result label does not establish a license closure
Read In Compliance, In Violation, Completed, or Non-Compliance/Case Closed as the result of a dated event. “Case Closed” alone is not evidence that the restaurant was physically closed. Likewise, an In Compliance result does not guarantee conditions after the inspection date.
A formal closure has stronger evidence. Under HHC Chapter 8, the Health Officer may post a public sign when a retail food establishment is closed because its license was suspended or revoked, or because it operated without a license. Only the Health Officer may remove that sign. Look for an explicit closure or license event, the suspension or revocation notice, and the later official record authorizing resumed operation. The site’s closure and permit-suspension guide explains how to arrange those documents without treating a routine violation as a shutdown.
A corrected item or a later routine report is not a substitute for reopening evidence. The controlling record is the agency’s notice or dated action for that license.
A recent or missing report may require a records request
The portal says state law prevents inspection reports from being posted until ten days after the inspection date. A very recent inspection can therefore be absent even when an inspection occurred. Wait through the stated delay, then search again by address and license rather than concluding that the record is missing.
The portal offers date filters and an inspection history, but the pages checked for this guide do not state when a complete online history begins. For an older period, a report that does not load, or the documents behind a closure and reopening sequence, use the agency’s Public Records Request page. Give the facility name, former name if known, physical address, license number, and a defined date range. Ask for the inspection, violation, recheck, closure or suspension, and reopening records you actually need.
The request page allows a person to ask for copies or arrange to inspect records during normal business hours. No request outcome is guaranteed, and an online gap does not prove that an inspection or enforcement action never happened.
Smaller Indiana counties often post scanned PDFs instead of a searchable portal. The Grant County, Indiana guide shows how to follow a routine report to its dated follow-up.
Official sources checked September 27, 2026.