Restaurant Report Card: Health Department docks local eateries

HOUSTON – The Houston Health Department Restaurant Inspection Team is out in force this week, looking for health violations, and they found them.

At the Hong Long Vietnamese Restaurant, located at 18405 State Highway 249, inspectors discovered a big one, rodent droppings and rodent teeth marks on the bags of flour.

Even worse, they found rodent waste in the uncooked rice.

Inspectors immediately ordered 10 pounds of the stuff condemned and thrown away.

Next stop is The Bombay Brasserie at 3005 West Loop South, where inspectors discovered slime in the ice machine.

Specifically, the inspectors wrote that the slime was located on the chute where the ice is dispensed.

The order given: Clean that machine.

Popping over to the Puerta Vieja Bar And Grill at 8282 Bellaire, where restaurant inspectors found live cockroaches crawling around.

The inspectors wrote about finding them in the kitchen near the dishwasher, also near the food preparation tables and underneath the wheels of one of the carts.

We at Channel 2 spoke to the manager over the phone, asking him what the restaurant is doing about the pests.

The manager told us that professional exterminators were brought in almost immediately, a second inspection was ordered and zero cockroaches were found the second time around.

At the Hard Rock Café, located at 502 Texas Avenue, inspectors found “a couple of cockroaches randomly within the kitchen of the food establishment.”

The Hard Rock was ordered to provide effective measures to eliminate the roaches.

And this week we are congratulating the sandwich experts at Jason’s Deli downtown.

The hardworking crew earned a perfect restaurant inspection report and for that reason they win KPRC’s coveted A-Plus Award.

So we say: Booo Yaaaah Jason’s, you guys got it going on.

File: Restaurant Reports - Nov. 16, 2017


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