Restaurant Report Card: Gnats, roaches found in local kitchens

We’re talking seafood in this week’s Restaurant Report Card, dangerous seafood.

We begin with raw oysters, which were found stored at dangerous temperatures overnight at Golden Seafood at 903 South 75th Street.
    
In fact, health inspectors wrote the restaurant up for 10 pounds of raw oysters that were deemed unsafe for human consumption.

All those oysters condemned by the Health Department and trashed.

Moving on to Joe’s Crab Shack at 2120 South Highway 6, where inspectors found a problem with roaches.

The inspectors ordering management at Joe’s to, “eliminate the presence of roaches."

Known for whipping up super fresh salads, this week the Weslayan Café lands on our list for a serious cockroach problem.

The Houston Health Department found roaches all throughout the kitchen and storage areas.

The restaurant manager agreed to close down while pest control experts were brought in to wipe out the problem.
    
“Yes, we fix the problem...I feel embarrassed we didn’t get it right the first time…but we are all good now," said Juan Caro, manager at the Weslayan Café.

The café is back open.


File: Restaurant Report Card Oct. 20, 2016

What do you like on your donuts?

Chocolate fudge and sprinkles are nice, but what about gnats?

At Shipley Donuts at 8901 Mesa Drive, health inspectors condemned three ice bars, calling them unsafe for human consumption because they had gnats crawling on them.

The tasty treats were ordered thrown away immediately.

And who else is in trouble?

Hu’s Garden located at 9905 South Post Oak, that’s who.

The restaurant was written up for having both dead and live roaches inside the kitchen, inside the storage area and inside the service area.

And hello Mickey D’s: This week we award our coveted A-Plus Rating to the staff at McDonald’s at 10415 Bissonnet for earning a perfect restaurant inspection report.

I’ll take a super-sized Mac-Boo-Yah!

Congratulations to the crew at McDonald’s; you guys rock!


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