To check a Montgomery County, Alabama restaurant inspection score, open the county’s food establishment score list and use your PDF viewer’s Find command for the business name or street address. Match the branch and keep its inspection date with the score. The statewide ADPH score search is another official route, but it timed out during our access checks; the county PDF remained available. For a past closure, you also need the later inspection or county confirmation before concluding that operations resumed.
The Montgomery County Health Department’s Food Establishment Sanitation page says its Environmental Health Division permits and inspects food-service establishments in the county. It also cautions that a score reflects compliance with minimum health standards only at the time of inspection. This guide covers Montgomery County, Alabama; Montgomery County, Maryland uses a different inspection system.
Choose the county list or statewide search
The Montgomery County PDF is the quicker route when you already know the local establishment. Each row supplies four fields: establishment, address, inspection date, and score. The file identified itself as updated September 8, 2026 when checked for this guide. Because it does not show violation details or the inspection sheet, treat it as an index to a dated score rather than a complete report.
When the statewide search is available, its form offers establishment name, establishment type, city, and county fields. Select Montgomery in the county field, then enter the establishment name. Cross-check any candidate against the street address in the county PDF before using its score; a chain can have several branches, and similar names can represent different operations. An interface failure is different from a completed search with no matches.
ADPH warns on the search page that an establishment may be missing because of new ownership, remodeling, or a recent opening that has not yet been inspected. The agency also says inspections continue throughout the year, so displayed grades and dates can change. A blank result therefore does not establish that a restaurant was never inspected.
Read the score as an action threshold
Alabama uses a 100-point scale in which higher scores are better. The official ADPH scoring system connects each band to an inspection or enforcement response:
| Score | ADPH response |
|---|---|
| 85–100 | Satisfactory compliance; routine inspection schedule |
| 70–84 | Follow-up inspection within 60 days |
| 60–69 | Follow-up and reinspection within 48 hours |
| Below 60 | Immediate closure |
The county page adds a local reopening threshold: a restaurant scoring below 60 is closed immediately until it can attain a score of 85. That threshold is only one part of the evidence. Alabama’s establishment closings page says operations do not resume until an inspection indicates that the imminent health risk and substantial hazard no longer exist. Do not infer authorization to reopen merely by adding points to an old score.
Red violations have their own correction clocks
An overall score does not replace the inspection sheet. ADPH marks Priority and Priority Foundation violations in red. Correction is required as soon as possible, within three days for Priority and ten days for Priority Foundation, regardless of the total score. The Montgomery County page more broadly says establishments with critical-item deficiencies are reinspected within ten days.
Keep the category printed on the actual report. Do not convert every red item into the same deadline or assume that a score in the 85–100 band means there were no time-sensitive findings. The county score PDF has no violation column, so it cannot answer whether a particular inspection contained a red item or whether it was corrected.
Separate the low score, closure, and reopening inspection
The closure page lists recent enforcement actions from the last 90 days. It covers food-service establishments as well as lodging and body-art facilities, so open the Food Establishments section and confirm the facility type. The list can document a dated enforcement event and its stated purpose. It is not a current-open-status register and it is not a complete historical archive.
Keep the inspection sheet, closure entry, and later inspection as separate dated events. The closure’s stated reason matters: loss of water or refrigeration and other imminent hazards can trigger action independently of a low score. A satisfactory score from an earlier visit cannot rule out a later closure.
For example, imagine a fictional restaurant with a score of 59, followed by a later score of 85. The second number meets the county’s score threshold, but it does not by itself tell you which hazard caused the closure or whether the agency cleared that hazard. Read the later report’s disposition or obtain county confirmation. This example describes no actual restaurant.
An establishment missing from the 90-day list still needs a separate check for older enforcement actions and present operating status. A closure can fall outside the publication window, and the state page directs readers to the local county health department for current status.
Resolve a missing or unclear Montgomery record
If the statewide name search fails, try a shorter business name, a former name, or the legal operator, then check the county PDF for the street address. Recheck that the location is in Montgomery County, Alabama and that it is a food-service establishment covered by this program. Keep separate entries when the address, operator, or inspection dates do not align.
For a score that appears inaccurate, a missing inspection sheet, or a current-status question after a closure, call the Montgomery County Health Department at (334) 293-6452, the number published on its sanitation page. Provide the full facility name, street address, approximate inspection date, and the exact source you already checked. The site’s reinspection follow-up guide can help organize multiple visits, while the closure and permit suspension guide explains why a historical closure and current permit status are separate questions.
Official sources checked September 20, 2026. The statewide form’s fields were readable through a text retrieval, but subsequent access attempts timed out. No individual establishment query was submitted; the working county PDF supplies the alternate lookup route above.