10 Restaurants That Made the “Dirty List”
Best Wings stored cooked gyro meat and turkey alongside raw chicken and beef and made sauce with expired sour cream. But the worst may be the restaurant managers coughing into their hands then handling food containers or licking gloves to help separate plastic bags. The place voluntarily closed after the inspection in April.
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A Manhattan Dunkin’ Donuts was recently shut down for being a rat heaven after a website posted a video showing the rodents in the restaurant. The Department of Health found a severe rodent infestation, inadequate hand washing facilities and food not being protected from contamination.
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Rodents and insects were common place when inspectors checked the Cantonese restaurant in November. There were also reports of boxes of produce being stacked up outside the bathroom and, vegetables on the floor next to a dirty mop bucket. The restaurant took some measures to remedy the violations and is still open.
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Famous for its Peking duck, the Hong Kong-style BBQ restaurant was shut down after customers got sick from barbeque meat in December and an inspector found a slew of violations, including more than 10 live cockroaches on the floor. Sun Wah BBQ failed two more inspections and finally reopened a week later.
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The fast food chain, which operates popular food trucks and restaurants in Cambridge and Boston, was closed in the summer of 2013 after being linked to a 12-person Salmonella outbreak. The inspector found spoiled cauliflower as well as hummus and salads coming back from food trucks at improper temperatures. Clover reopened a week later.
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A routine inspection shut down one of the restaurant chain outposts in early April after inspectors found it had no hot or potable water, food was unprotected from potential contamination and there was an inadequate number of hand washing sinks among many other violations. The place had been closed in 2011 for similar reasons.
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In early March, a woman found a cockroach on her half eaten carrot. A few days later, a health inspector issued an emergency shut down after discovering 26 violations including dead and live cockroaches as well as raw chicken being dished out using a plastic cup.
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A health inspector ordered an emergency closure of the BBQ chain founded in 1968 after it found dozens of violations. These included cockroaches stuck on a glue trap near the drive-thru window and more than 270 rodent droppings found throughout the kitchen, near the dish washing machine and on a cutting board. It has since reopened.
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Burger King’s BK Whopper Bar in Times Square, which served artisanal burgers, was shut down twice in a month nearly two years ago. Inspectors found flies in the kitchen, unrefrigerated food and inappropriate hand washing facilities lacking soap. The high-concept gourmet spinoff remains closed.
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The Thai chain outpost in Hayes Valley closed for a couple of days in November due to a major cockroach infestation. The alert was given by a customer who found four roaches crawling on the soup terrine that was just served.
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