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  • The four-star roach

    Posted: October 12th, 2010 - 5:13pm by Doug Powell

    A cockroach appeared on the table of five diners at the super snazzy New York eatery, Jean Georges, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s four-star kitchen and dining room on the first floor of 1 Central Park West.

    “A woman at the table screamed and the whole restaurant went quiet,” said Lois Freedman, a spokeswoman for Mr. Vongerichten, who was not in the restaurant at the time.

    Sam Sifton of the N.Y. Times reports that waiters and captains moved to the table with grim alacrity, said people who saw them whisk the aggrieved customers to a new table. … Champagne was brought to the table of the woman who had screamed, and further treats after that: an additional course was added to the restaurant’s three-course, $98 prix fixe dinner, and desserts, and dessert wine. The restaurant’s captain kept a close eye on the table. At least one other table received a round of free drinks as a way of thanking them for their forbearance.

    Bring your own cockroach, although I would never recommend that, especially when Jean Georges received an inspection score of 23 from the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which translates to a B.
     

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  • Raw clams sicken 60 with campy in NY

    Posted: October 7th, 2010 - 12:02pm by Doug Powell

    The Onondaga County Health Department says 60 people have become ill because of raw clams served at an event at Hinerwadel's Grove in North Syracuse.

    The Health Department says so far, all of the illnesses have been linked to a clambake September 15th for the CNY Builders Exchange. Approximately 3,800 members attended that clambake.

    The reported symptoms are related to campylobacter, a bacterial infection that causes diarrhea, cramps, and fever. The incubation period for the infection is usually two to five days, but it can last as long as 10 days. Symptoms can last up to two weeks.

    The Health Department is asking that anyone who ate at the facility and became ill to call (315) 435-6607.


     

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  • Kitchen confidential no more: sanitation grades will be good for New York diners and restaurateurs

    Posted: March 24th, 2010 - 5:34pm by Doug Powell

    So says Tim Zagat, co-founder and chief executive of Zagat Survey in this morning’s N.Y. Times, adding,

    This system can only benefit the restaurant industry, and the health board has been eminently reasonable in what it proposes to do. What’s more, the public overwhelmingly favors the idea. In a recent survey by my company, 83 percent of respondents said that they would like to have grades posted. …

    In essence, the New York plan merely makes routine health inspection results more transparent. The city has inspected restaurants for decades, but the results have been available only online or at the health department; now they will be displayed in the restaurant itself. Establishments that fail to get an A on the first inspection will be given a second examination within 30 days, giving them time to correct any failings found in the first go-around.

    Quite simply, the inspection process is intended to keep us safe when dining out. … The restaurant association would do well to take its place at the table — and support the proposed grading system.

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