The restaurant inside the Concord Hilton, located at 1970 Diamond Blvd. in Concord, was shut down on March 11 after inspectors from the Contra Costa County Department of Environmental Health say they found the following:
- 1 fresh dead rodent and 1 live rodent on the monitoring trap on the floor inside the utensil storage room.
- 3 rodent droppings on the floor near the employee locker and employee restroom.
- 1 rodent dropping underneath the shelf that stored aprons.
- 15+ rodent droppings inside the oven at the service room cook line.
- 5+ small flies in the bar area.
The restaurant has since been re-inspected and reopened.
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The Hilton too? Oh my.
DO NOT ORDER ROOM SERVICE!!!
Why? How come ?
After Paris hanged out with Kim Khardasian , It went downhill from there
I here there’s lots of bar flies in Concord…
Best inspector in the bay!
Eat well!
BFF Out!
T H A N K Y O U
New petting zoo.
What the heck is going on around here, every place is riddled with rats now?? Bring in the exterminators!
What no cockroaches?
Rats probably ate them all.
Those small flies found in the bar area were probably inside a bottle of booze… it happens alot, especially in those sweet liqueurs on the back bar that don’t sell too quickly. They have a few weeks to catch fruit flies.
Bar Flies 3 old men no doubt//
My previous neighbor used to be an exterminator. She made a good living working in Concord and walnut Creek. She wouldn’t tell me where she treated but told me more than once she had to deal with live rats at restaurants. Not mice, RATS.
Rats get peckish too.
If I see a dead rat in my hotel room I would demand a free room
Dead rat in my room – Health Department phone call and I’m out of there.
This hotel butts up against the drain canal. You would see rats along there on a 100 degree mid afternoon. No surprise they would get in the kitchen
I guess even the higher class places aren’t exempt.
Quick death snap or electric traps are more humane anyway. The best way to deal with rats is to eliminate ways for them to enter the building and cleaning up landscape and trash where they can hide. Trim trees so that they are away from the building.
Rat traps and peanut butter work great.
Why are they not required to have a service come and take care of the on a monthly basis????? (If they had a service there would not be a problem) There is NO excuse for this to happen if you pay a service to take care of this. The restaurant can sue the service for the days their closed if they don’t clear out the rodents.
I don’t work at a restaurant and my work has a monthly service that checks for bugs and rodents once a month. What is wrong with these restaurants????
And so I am once more validated in my choice of not eating out anymore. It’s just not worth it in the Roulette Game of has the kitchen been cleaned properly, did they wash their hands, did they store this properly, is the food fresh, who is sick and should be home and not handling my food. In the last month closure after closure – the problem with vermin is either getting worse or the management are slobs, or both. Here’s to eating at home.
Rats need a lot of water to survive, as they use urine to mark their food and den routes. Not surprised that there’s so many issues, due to the rains, etc.
Unfortunately, when one place is closed and there is nothing available for them to eat, the rats and mice all move to the next nearest food source or restaurant. Same with cockroaches. It takes a coordinated effort, and they have to be removed over a broad area to solve the problem.
So what did the rodents do before there were restaurants? Why can’t they stay outside and eat like nature intended?
Before there were restaurants they dined in the Walnut orchards. They invade the restaurants because the cuisine is so much more interesting, and they don’t have to work so hard to get it. 😀
Has anyone considered that almost
every time the Disposal Companies empty
dumpsters they leave the lids open? This creates
a huge feeding source for rats. These dumpsters
surround all the restaurants, apartments and
businesses throughout
the city of Concord and Pleasant Hill.
Well, the dumpsters are empty, so it does not matter. The employees can just close the lids next time they take out the trash.
Also, vagrants go through the trash at all times and leave the lids open. Or there is too much trash to be able to close the lids.
Dang! Went there with my mom last month! The combination of location (backing up to Walnut Creek), the homeless camps in the area, and less effective baits combine to make this a problem. I think the Elephant Bar had problems as well.
Was this before The Crab Feed…or after?
So funny that people feel they can live in rodents free areas. There’s canals, hills, sewers, etc. Just because it’s Urban doesn’t mean anything. Rats are everywhere in the Eastbay. We had an infestation for a year. Orkin came out for a year. All they did was set traps. We still hear them in the walls. Let’s face it, there’s no such thing as rat free. We lost a ton of stuff because of rats. They chewed thru sheetrock, carpet, 5 gallon hard plastic buckets, got in thru tiny holes & cracks. They nested. They were aggressive and did a lot of damage. Welcome to earth.
This article is not completely true.
The hotel has mice NOT rats. Due to the creek and the constant rains there has been an overwhelming amount of rodents that the city has done NOTHING about. The same city that inspects restaurants.
Mice do not come in contact with food or drinks and overall this issue is ongoing throughout every city and EVERY restaurant has issues this is why every restaurant has a pest control service on speed dial. Ask anyone.
On top of everything there’s the issue of people using the bad review to try to get free food.
…a little respect people…a little respect.
I had a mouse/vole infestation in my home, and they definitely did come into contact with food.
The city isn’t in charge of health inspections. The county is.
Really? If the restaurant keeps all outside holes and other entrances plugged, there should be no problem, at least with rodents.
You’re right, to an extent. I think the issue is the LEVEL of infestation. Once you actually see evidence of vermin out in the open, then that means it’s pretty severe. If you can keep the infestation down low enough to where it’s not obvious, that’s good.
Now the Health Department is mistaking Paris sightings for rat sightings! Well, they are similar!
When you’re havin’ lunch with Mike, Phil and Herman
And the pasta carbonara tastes mildly of Vermin