Restaurant Report Card: Health Department inspectors find roaches, slime at local eateries

HOUSTON – The ice machine. Every restaurant has one, nobody thinks much about it, but that thing has to be kept clean because eventually that ice is going to wind up inside your drink.

In this week’s Restaurant Report Card, health inspectors condemned the ice at the Mala Sichuan Bistro at 9348 Bellaire Blvd.

The problem? Slime in the ice machine.

In fact, they described it as a mixture of pink and black slime.

Up next, it’s Tacos A Go-Go at 3704 Main Street, where inspectors discovered a no-no, roaches.

The health inspection team found cockroaches behind the ice machine and ordered operators of the place to quote, “provide effective measures to eliminate cockroaches.”

More roach troubles, this time at Elis Bakery And Panateria located at 3732 Roma Street.

The problem was so serious the inspector ordered the place to close down until exterminators could be brought in to fix the problem.

The restaurant, according to the inspector’s report had a cockroach crawling on top of an open bag of sugar that was stored on top of other live and dead roaches.


File: Health Department Restaurant Reports - Aug. 11, 2017

The inspector also found bags of flour that were sitting on top of more live and dead roaches.

Dead roaches are what restaurant inspectors found at Simply Greek at 1900 Blalock Road.

The health department ordered managers of the place to provide effective measures to eliminate the presence of flies and roaches.

And finally at LA Crawfish at 1005 Blalock Road inspectors found a live roach crawling in the crevice of the refrigerator door.

Now the good news, this week our coveted A-Plus Award goes out to the hardworking crew at Chipotle Mexican Grille on South Shepherd.

Chipotle receives a perfect restaurant inspection report and we at Channel 2 News say Booooo Yaaaaaah, fist pump, you guys rock!

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