Pho Lee Hoa Phat Vietnamese restaurant, located at 2030 Diamond Blvd. in Concord, was shut down this week after inspectors from the Contra Costa County Department of Environmental Health say they found the following:
- 1 dead rodent on a snap trap on the floor underneath the food preparation table in the front kitchen next to the ice machine.
- 20+ rodent droppings on a newspaper and inside extra bowls.
- 1 live cockroach on the back kitchen hand sink.
- 1 live cockroach on the floor underneath push cart (across from deep fryers).
- 1 live cockroach on the floor behind the milk crates that store the rice warmers.
- 5+ dead cockroaches on the wall above the rice warmers and push cart.
- 2 dead cockroaches on the wall above the shaved ice machine.
- 2 dead cockroaches on top of the lid of the flour food container.
- 1 dead cockroach between the lid of the water filter next to back kitchen hand sink.
- Cockroach fecal matter in the following areas:
– wall between the storage racks above the back kitchen hand sink
– wall beneath the food preparation table
– wall between the storage racks above the dishwasher machine
The restaurant has since been reinspected and reopened.
Please click on the ‘Dirty Dining‘ link to view all the most recent restaurant closures in Contra Costa County.
Makes you wonder about the other food places in there.
I’ve said this before. Isn’t it a part of a restaurant job to clean the place. All the restaurants that get closed down ‘cause they’re dirty is ridiculous. After a CLOSURE they should be required to pay for and continue to have a bug/pest control company take care of this. I don’t work in a restaurant and WE have a pest control company come all the time and do checks inside and out.
More found dead than alive, must be the food.
Have not been there, but I know others who have.
Thank You Claycord for posting of Dirty Dining.
Another “one and done” place not to go to – ever.
That means that whole building which includes Seafood City market is likely infested.
Does that mean that Circuit City was too? 🙂
What about Golden Corral, which is next door? Or The Veranda, across the street?
I used to think was the case, but learned not always the case. A while back a Subway near my home was shut down, either for a pest or rodent infestation, think(?) pest. The adjacent unit is also an eatery and was inspected the same day. It got a green card with no pest/rodent infestation.
Well. We should all go now. At should be clean for awhile right????
Sounds like authentic home style Vietnamese chow to me.