From NBC5:An African restaurant in the Uptown neighborhood was ordered shut down Wednesday after city inspectors found a cockroach infestation and food -- including tripe and goat meat -- being stored at unsafe temperatures.City Department of Public Health inspectors discovered a cockroach infestation in the kitchen, as well as cooked food held at unsafe temperatures (goat meat at 120 degrees, chicken at 116 degrees and tripe at 102 degrees -- all well below the 140 degree minimum required) at the TBS African Restaurant, 4507 N. Sheridan Rd., according to a release from the department. Wednesday's visit by the Health Department was a routine, unannounced inspection, the release said.
Representatives of TBS will face an administrative hearing on March 27 and pay a fine expected to total $1,000.The enforcement action was the 16th in 2008 in which Health Department inspectors have closed a food establishment for violations of the city Health Code.
Thankfully there is no shortage of African restaurants in Uptown. Has anyone tried Nigerian Kitchen on Wilson at Dover? I never see anyone in there eating but its always open. Curious.
ReplyDeleteThe city is probably making way for a fine location for a day labor operation in the heart of Shiller's ward.
ReplyDeletethe TBS restaurant has a big yellow sign in front that boasts 1$ All You Can Eat Buffet. Thats asking for trouble.
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I just happened to run into the owner out front today and she's feeling really bad about this. She intends to get her restaurant into compliance quickly.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone hear about Ha Mien being infested with roaches awhile back? It was in the Sun-Times. I live off of Argyle...and that restaurant never closed. Was that accurately reported? Can a restaurant have "so many roaches we stopped counting" ... not be closed by the Board of Health?!
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