Other recent Gwinnett restaurant scores:

Wings Avenue, 884 Buford Drive, Suite 500, Lawrenceville, 100/A

Sweet Baby Jane’s Home Cooking, 520 W Pike St, Lawrenceville. 92/A

O’Shucks Seafood & Grill, 3939 Atlanta Highway, Suite 103, Loganville. 87/B

Mi Pilon Restaurant, 5705 Buford Highway, Norcross. 86/B

LZ Ramen House, 2180 Pleasant Hill Road, Suite B10 and B11, Duluth. 82/B

A Gwinnett restaurant known for authentic Mexican food failed its health inspection last month, but has since passed its health inspection, according to a recent report.

An inspector noted dead roaches on top of the dish machine at Tacos Mexico in Buford on March 8, but the restaurant later scored a 98 on its follow-up inspection, according to a Georgia Department of Public Health inspection report.

Read the full follow-up inspection here.

The Buford Highway restaurant received a failing grade of 54/U on its initial health inspection in March, according to the report. The restaurant previously scored an 82 on a health inspection in December.

Read the full health inspection report here.

The inspection also noted over a dozen containers of uncovered food and shrimp thawing in a container of stagnant water, according to the report.

Management at Tacos Mexico did not immediately respond to requests for comment by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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