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About Dirty Dining

For the past six 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."

Additional Links

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: My Place on the Beach Over the last year and a half, state inspectors found live and dead rats and mice along with many rodent droppings inside one local restaurant, among other violations. Video \| Response from My Place (24.0KB)
	Are you getting the shrimp you pay for? We uncovered that cheap, imported, pond-raised shrimp is being mislabeled and sold as expensive, fresh, wild caught domestic shrimp. Video
	Dirty Dining: Shanghai Chinese Restaurant This restaurant has accumulated 57 critical violations over the last year and had to close their doors last month after inspectors found live and dead roaches in the kitchen.
	Dirty Dining: Tank's Tap Room A local pub was written up for 71 critical violations over the last four visits, including a stop sale in January on 40 pounds of chicken wings. Video
	Dirty Dining: China Cafe This Bay area restaurant accumulated 78 critical violations in the last year. One offense: inspectors saw small birds flying in the kitchen during three different visits. Video
	Dirty Dining: Blimpie Subs Since 1964, this sub sandwich shop has advertised fresh wholesome subs that are good for you, but state inspectors found more than fresh subs behind the kitchen doors at one location. Video
	Dirty Dining: El Mezcalito Mexican Restaurant This local Mexican restaurant has stacked up 51 critical violations over the last year, including live roaches and rodent droppings in the kitchen, food at improper temperatures, and food stored on the floor. Video
	Blue Ribbon Award: Five Guys Burgers and Fries This popular restaurant aced their last three state inspections with not one violation, earning them an ABC Action News blue ribbon award. Video
	Dirty Dining: Uncle Wally's A local restaurant was shut down twice for a roach infestation and in November reportedly had over 500 dead and live roaches in the kitchen. Video
	Dirty Dining: Madeleina Cottage This quaint restaurant is known for their great English food, but inspectors documented seeing roaches in the kitchen in April and November and finally shut the place down to clean up. Video

	Dirty Dining: Ercolano's Italian Restaurant This Italian restaurant has accumulated 90 critical violations over the last year and a half and in September, the eatery was shut down for 24 hours for a roach infestation. Video
	Dirty Dining: Bay area bakeries In a special Dirty Dining investigation, we found that several bay area bakeries shut down because of insects, unsanitary practices, or temperature issues. \| Mauricio Faedo's Bakery Response (155.7KB)
	Dirty Dining: Remington's Steakhouse This steak house accumulated 193 violations in the last year and a half and state inspectors documented no certified food manager on duty in almost every report since early 2008. Video
	Are restaurants safe from H1N1? With the swine flu virus continuing to spread, are local restaurants taking extra precautions and prepared for the H1N1 virus? Video
	Dirty Dining: Ruby Thai Kitchen This restaurant at the Westfield Countryside Mall food court was recently closed down due to roach infestation, among other violations. Video \| Westfield Countryside Mall Response (9.0KB)
	Dirty Dining: Jumbo Buffet This Tampa restaurant was shut down after inspectors found more than 80 roaches in the kitchen, employees using their bare hands on ready to eat food, and slime in the ice machine. Video
	Dirty Dining: Perkins Restaurant and Bakery This well-known pancake house accumulated 77 critical violations over the past year, including five gallons of milk that had to be thrown out for temperature issues. Video \| Response from Perkins (6.0KB)
	Dirty Dining: Steak 'n Shake Steak 'n Shake in Tampa had 34 critical violations and two stop sales because food was at improper temperatures - enough to make our Dirty Dining list. Video
	Dirty Dining: Primo's Pasta and Ribs This Clearwater Italian eatery had 100 critical violations documented over the last year. Video
	Dirty Dining: Village Inn Pancake House This popular breakfast spot had 41 violations in just one report in August, and inspectors ordered a stop sale of 8 pounds of food in April. Video \| Village Inn Response (20.4KB)

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