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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."

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: 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. Watch Video
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	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. Watch 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. Watch 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. Watch 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. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Primo's Pasta and Ribs This Clearwater Italian eatery had 100 critical violations documented over the last year. Watch 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. Watch Video \| Village Inn Response (20.4KB)
	Dirty Dining: Sophia's Restaurant and Pizza This family pizzeria is trying to turn things around despite having roaches and rats over the last few years and 92 critical violations in the last year. Watch Video

	Dirty Dining: La Bamba III Mexican Restaurant This local Mexican restaurant has been open almost a year and has already accumulated 39 critical violations. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Europa Restaurant This popular breakfast and lunch spot was recently shut down for a severe roach infestation. Watch Video
	Dirty Dining: Cody's Original Roadhouse Cody's was shut down by state inspectors for a rat infestation and was ordered to throw out soup and key lime pie that were at dangerous temperatures. Watch Video \| Response from Cody's Original Roadhouse (9.6KB)
	Dirty Dining: Dunkin Donuts Baskin Robbins State inspectors found 49 critical violations and products at hazardous temperatures at this Oldsmar business, which made our Dirty Dining list. Watch Video \| Dunkin' Donuts response (8.6KB)
	Dirty Dining: Sneaky's Sports Bar and Grill This Bay area restaurant had 95 violations in one year, 57 critical issues, over 50 live and dead roaches, and 55 ounces of sauce at hazardous temperatures. Watch Video \| Response from Sneaky's Sports Bar and Grill (280.0KB)
	Dirty Dining: El Zarape This popular mexican restaurant had roach and rodent problems three years in a row and inspectors recently ordered the owner to throw out food. Watch Video
	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

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