Behind The Kitchen Door: Perfect restaurant inspection scores for week of December 5

Eighteen restaurants in the bay area earned perfect scores from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants the week of December 5th. The clean places include 3 hotel restaurants, one eatery on a golf course, a billiards place, a pool bar and several other restaurants.

Orange County did the best with 6 eateries making the list. There were 4 in Polk County, along with 2 in Highlands, 2 in Manatee, 2 in Pasco, 1 in Hillsborough and 1 in Pinellas.

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) through the Division of Hotels and Restaurants inspects restaurants throughout the state. Each week, abcactionnews.com analyzes the latest list of restaurant inspections to identify those that received zero-violations, thus obtaining the perfect score. Abcactionnews.com's analysis is based on information posted on DBPR's Website.

State inspectors can return for multiple visits stemming from one inspection until problems are corrected. The lists below include seated and non-seated restaurants that received "zero" violations on the first visit of an inspection. This list does not include restaurants that have received zero violations after multiple visits for the same inspection. Each inspection report is a "snapshot" of conditions present at the time of the inspection.

List includes restaurants in Citrus, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee, Orange, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter and Sarasota counties.

The restaurants listed all earned a perfect score in their inspections during the week of December 5.

HIGHLANDS

• RIVER GREENS GOLF COURSE REST 47 LAKE DAMON DR AVON PARK
• MARRIOTT RESIDENCE INN SEBRING 3221 TUBBS RD SEBRING

HILLSBOROUGH

• THE MANHATTAN DOLCE BAR AND BISTRO  4328 W EL PRADO BLVD TAMPA

MANATEE

• MCDONALDS 2911 53RD AVE E, IN SIDE WALMART - AKA: E SR 70 BRADENTON
• ANNIE'S BAIT & TACKLE  4334 127 ST W CORTEZ

ORANGE

• OASIS 13800 SR 535 ORLANDO
• MANGO MARKET 5800 WATER PLAY WAY ORLANDO
• SMUGGLERS FEAST 7007 SEAHARBOR DRIVE ORLANDO
• SPA GRILLE 8701 WORLD CENTER DR ORLANDO
• POINTE ORLANDO STADIUM 20 9101 INTERNATIONAL DR STE 2100 ORLANDO
• CAT-TAILS POOL BAR AND GRILL 9939 UNIVERSAL BLVD ORLANDO

PASCO

• DJ'S FAMILY BILLIARDS  5412 MAIN ST NEW PORT RICHEY
• PANERA BREAD 9405 US HWY 19 PORT RICHEY

PINELLAS

• PIER 60 CONCESSIONS 10 PIER 60 DRIVE CLEARWATER BCH

POLK

• HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS AND SUITES 4050 HOTEL DR DAVENPORT
• P & J RECREATION  33 S SCENIC HWY FROSTPROOF
• HAMPTON INN 4420 N SOCRUM LOOP RD LAKELAND
• TSUNAMI SUSHI 5937 CYPRESS GARDEN BLVD WINTER HAVEN