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About Dirty Dining

For the past five years, ABC Action News anchor Wendy Ryan has been uncovering what's really happening inside some of your favorite restaurant kitchens around the bay area. She has combed through hundreds of health inspection reports and told you about safety and sanitation issues you need to know about.

Behind The Kitchen Door

See how restaurants stack up on their health inspections. Search our interactive restaurant inspections database to check inspection and disciplinary history of any local restaurant from 2007 to present. Search by name, zip code, city or county to see what's really going on "Behind The Kitchen Door."

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Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation Division of Hotels and Restaurants
http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/index.html

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Dirty Dining

	Dirty Dining: Feola's Pasta Factory Over the last year, state inspectors spotted roaches three times and documented 204 violations at this Bay area restaurant. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: S & D Country Kitchen State inspectors shut the restaurant down three times in three years because of problems with roaches. Just this last year, they found 112 violations. Watch Video
	How does your favorite restaurant score? If you ever wanted to know how your favorite restaurant scores with inspectors, we now have the state's inspection report database just a click away on our website! Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Imperial Garden A local restaurant has accumulated 80 violations in just two months and inspectors shut the business down for two days for a roach infestation. Watch Video
	Fish or foul? In a special investigation, we tested grouper from several different Bay area restaurants and our results may leave a bad taste in your mouth. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Banana Factory The Banana Factory was shut down for two days several months ago because of roach and rodent activity. The restaurant has accumulated 58 violations in the last year. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Maine-ly New England Restaurant A Zephyrhills restaurant often visited by snowbirds is known for it's seafood, but inspectors shut the place down last October after finding rodent droppings in the kitchen. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Lanore's Nifty 50's Cafe Another restaurant has been shut down for a rodent infestation and the owner blames it on the colder weather we've had this year. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Seafood safety questioned We found one local seafood distribution plant that has some questionable delivery practices and it could be putting the food you eat at risk. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Restaurant fines We discovered not one restaurant had their license revoked in 2008, and 121 Bay area restaurants have fines past due totaling more than $145,000. Watch Video \| Past Due Restaurant Fines (19.1KB)

	Dirty Dining: School Cafeterias In a special dirty dining investigation, we looked through two years of inspection reports from counties all across the bay area to see how clean they are and if they're inspected as often as your local restaurant. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Inspectors and the economy The struggling economy has impacted our restaurant industry because fewer inspectors are now on the streets. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Panda Restaurant Panda Restaurant in Clearwater has been shut down twice in 2008 for a roach infestation and rodent infestation and with inspectors finding over 400-rodent droppings during just one visit, it's the latest to make our dirty dining list. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Stacey's Buffet Inspectors have written up 263-violations over the last two years, made six follow up inspections and shut this restaurant down in November for a roach and rodent infestation! Watch Video
	Dirty Dining Investigation: Do grading systems really work? Some believe putting a grade on a restaurant's front door is a good thing. Others say it's useless. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Quaker Steak and Lube Inspectors found something more than just chicken wings and classic cars inside this Pinellas Park restaurant. Watch Video

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