....eat at your own risk
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Eat At Your Own Risk Goes To Brooklyn
Is Your Favorite Eatery Making You Sick?
Kirstin Cole
Reporting
For the best Hallah bread in Brooklyn, customers say, head to Yossi's on 18th Avenue in Borough Park, where you can find rack after rack of freshly baked goods.
But in August, health inspectors shut the little bakery down after finding a different kind of freshly made item, 400 mice droppings. The owner denied it, but according to the three-page report, inspectors found a total of six critical violations and had to throw away three trays of cakes contaminated by mice.
They also found roaches crawling in the kitchen and dozens of live and dead flies. But it was the severe mouse infestation that got Yossi's closed for three days.
''Do you think your customers deserve more of an answer on how things...,'' asked Kirstin Cole.
''My customers are not getting answers through you, they don't look at you, they don't look at your program,'' the owner responded.
Brooklyn is New York City's largest borough, with diverse cuisine. But how clean are the restaurants? In an exclusive CBS 2 News ''Eat At Your Own Risk'' Investigation, we combed through the most recent health inspection reports of hundreds of eateries and found many racking up critical health code violations--that could make you sick.
For take-out, there's Hong Kong Restaurant on Church Avenue in Flatbush. But in August, health inspectors found the vermin preferred to eat in. There were dozens of mice and rat droppings in the kitchen, flies in the refrigerator and five roaches crawling on the kitchen prep table.
With a total of seven critical violations, Hong Kong Restaurant failed its inspection.
''Have you been able to clean that up since they've been here,'' asked Cole.
''I don't know,'' the owner responded.
Once a restaurant fails an inspection, the city returns until enough violations have been corrected so the restaurant can pass. When inspectors came to follow up at Hong Kong a month later, they found more problems, including potentially hazardous foods like chicken and egg rolls left out at dangerous temperatures. Despite the violations, Hong Kong passed its re-inspection.
At the McDonald's on Eastern Parkway in Brownsville, inspectors found four critical violations in August. They included milk held at dangerous temperatures, a build-up of mildew in the ice machine and dozens of fresh and stale mouse droppings behind storage shelves.
Health inspectors failed the fast food eatery, and when they returned a month later to re-inspect, they found 40 more mouse droppings waiting for them in the basement. In a statement, the owner said, "I have a responsibility to my customers and employees, and I take the necessary steps to ensure they're satisfied with their experience."
And despite the violations, McDonald's passed its re-inspection.
Reviews of Inaka Sushi House on 7th Avenue in Park Slope say the little restaurant "...remains a reliable neighborhood spot for Japanese fare." But in August, health inspectors failed the eatery after they found five critical violations.
Inaka had potentially contaminated food, including six pounds of rice that was inedible because it was covered with dirty wiping cloths. They also found dozens of rat droppings.
''Can you tell me if they've been able to clean up the rat droppings,'' questioned Cole.
''I think they fix already the stuff,'' a worker responded.
And on a re-inspection in September, Inaka Sushi House passed. Back at Yossi's, inspectors re-opened the popular neighborhood bakery finding no critical violations. In all, 16 restaurants in Brooklyn were shut down by the Health Department and more than 100 failed.
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