Avenue Eat & Drink, 115 E Park Ave, Tallahassee, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: AVENUE EAT & DRINK
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 115 E Park Ave, Tallahassee, FL 32301
License #: 4703275
Total inspections: 12
Last inspection: 11/13/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. White drinking glass on prep table.
  • Basic - Employee wearing jewelry other than a plain ring on their hands/arms while preparing food. Several food prep employees.
  • Basic - Employee with ineffective hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Several employees.
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Several employees on cook line.
  • Basic - Food stored on floor. Bag of potatoes on floor in hallway. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - In-use utensil in nonpotentially hazardous (non-time/temperature control for safety) food not stored with handle above top of food within a closed container. Ice scoop stored on top of back ice machine exposed to dust.
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed in an improper manner. Chicken and turkey being thawed in kitchen three compartment sink with no running water. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Containers with granular substance and white powdery substance not labeled. Manager said it was sugar and flour.
  • High Priority - Cooked potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 70 degrees Fahrenheit within 2 hours. Parsnip potatoes at 1:15 48°, 46° at 2:15 boiled eggs at 12:37 50°and 50°at 1:36 and 43° at Salmon cheese cake 46 12:30 and at 2:15 still 46° potatoes and cheese cake was thrown away.
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on new set of gloves to work with food. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Employee touching sweet potato chips with bare hands. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Glass stem/sensor thermometer in use with no shatterproof coating. Produce cooler and dessert coolers need thermometers.
  • High Priority - Nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction. Fish must be fully cooked or discarded. The tuna tartar and seared tuna.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food found greater than 70 degrees Fahrenheit and less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit more than four hours. See stop sale.
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit. Frozen raw chicken out of original package stored over raw beef I reach- freezer. Raw shell eggs stored above tuna that is seared.
  • High Priority - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food marked with a date that exceeds 7 days after opening/preparation. Duck stock date marked at 10/28.
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine. Ice machine by beverage dry storage.
  • Intermediate - Food being cooled by nonapproved method as evidenced by inadequate rate of cooling during time of inspection. Potatoes were in pans that were to deep, eggs were covered and cheese cake was too dinse.
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink used for purposes other than hand-washing. Dumping ice in waitress station hand wash sink. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - No chlorine chemical test kit provided when using chlorine sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Intermediate - No handwash sink located in vending machine area where employees service bulk food machines. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Reach-in cooler shelves soiled with food debris. The reach in cooler glass front in storage area unit with comp. valet sign.
11/13/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • High Priority - License expired within 30 days after expiration date.
  • High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Produce with mold-like growth. Tomatoes **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Employee used handwash sink as a dump sink.
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle not labeled. **Corrected On-Site**
6/27/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • High Priority - Dented/rusted cans present. Hosing sauce. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Stuffing olives. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Raw/undercooked animal food offered and establishment has no written consumer advisory. Raw animal foods must be fully cooked prior to service. **Repeat Violation**
2/27/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Spray bottle containing a food product not labeled.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Eggs over aujus. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb.
  • Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained/soiled.
  • Intermediate - No chlorine chemical test kit provided when using chlorine sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Intermediate - Raw/undercooked animal food offered and establishment has no written consumer advisory. Raw animal foods must be fully cooked prior to service.
10/15/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Cutting boards has cut marks and is no longer cleanable.
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation.
  • Basic - In-use ice scoop stored on soiled surface between uses. Ice scoop stored on jar or peppers on storage rack. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding units.
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food beef in 3 compartment sink thawed in standing water. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit less than 2 hours. Remove from make table cooler and put into freezer and temperatures rechecked and at proper temperature of 41° and below. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Wiping cloth sanitizing solution bucket stored near/on/above food preparation surface or food. Prep table with clean plates. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine near storage area.
  • Intermediate - Commercially processed ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food MILK opened and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked after opening. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Employee used handwash sink as a dump sink. Observed ice in kitchen hand wash sink and waitress station hand wash sink.
  • Intermediate - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food covered while cooling. Pasta in reach in cooler covered. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Reach-in cooler make table on cook line not maintaining potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food at proper temperatures. Do not store potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food in this unit until the unit is capable of maintaining foods at 41 degrees Fahrenheit or colder.
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled on rack above mop sink. **Corrected On-Site**
6/14/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Clean pans not properly air dried - wet nesting.
  • Basic - Cutting boards has cut marks and is no longer cleanable.
  • Basic - In-use utensil in nonpotentially hazardous food SUGAR not stored with handle above top of food within a closed container. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine.
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled on shelf above 3 compartment sink.
1/25/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured.
  • Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried. Clean pans stacked while wet.
  • Light not functioning. Observed light out in women's restroom.
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Open container on counter at waitress station. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed cutting board grooved/pitted and no longer cleanable. Cutting board on prep table adjacent stove.
  • Critical - Observed employee improperly washing hands.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed hand wash sink used for purpose other than washing hands. Sanitizing bucket in handsink.
  • Critical - Observed improper horizontal separation of raw animal foods and ready-to-eat foods. Shell eggs stored next to beef. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed improper use of bowl/plastic food container or other container with no handle used to dispense ready-to-eat food. Non handle cup in sugar container. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed soil buildup inside ice bin.
  • Critical - Observed soiled reach-in cooler gaskets. Cooler adjacent stove.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Sugar container not labeled. Corrected On Site.
8/17/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - OBSERVED CONTAINER WITH SUGAR NOT PROPERLY LABELED - COS
  • Critical - OBSERVED HANDWASH SINK USED FOR OTHER PURPOSES - DUMPING ICE, WAITRESS STATION
  • Critical - OBSERVED MILK IN REFRIGERATOR MORE THAN 24 HOURS - NOT DATE MARKED
  • Critical - OBSERVED NOODLES BEING COOLED IN COVERED CONTAINER IN KITCHEN - COS
  • Critical - OBSERVED OPEN BOTTLE OF APPLE JUICE IN REACH-IN COOLER WHICH IS INTENDED FOR CONSUMER SERVICE (EMPLOYEE'S DRINK) - COS
  • Critical - OBSERVED RAW SHELLED EGGS STORED ABOVE RAW BEEF IN REACH-IN COOLER
  • OBSERVED SODA HOLSTER ACCUMULATED BUILDUP AT BAR - COS
  • Critical - OBSERVED TWO OPEN CONTAINERS OF TEA AT WAITRESS STATION - COS
  • OBSERVED WASTELINE RUNNING THROUGH ICE BIN
4/9/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container in a food preparation area.
  • Critical - Observed bare hand contact of ready-to-eat food by employees and establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure in effect. Cutting lemons for garnishing.
  • Critical - Observed employee donning gloves without washing hands.
  • Critical - Observed improper vertical separation of raw animal foods and ready-to-eat foods. eggs above beef, storage reach-in.
  • Observed soda gun holster with accumulated slime/debris. bar.
  • Wet mop not hung to dry.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. sugar? Corrected On Site.
7/12/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • No Violations Were Observed
5/11/2011Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Manager lacking proof of Food Manager Certification.
  • No copy of latest inspection report.
  • Critical - No proof of required employee training provided. All public food service establishments must provide the division with proof of employee training upon request, including, but not limited to, at the time of any division inspection of the establishment.
  • Observed dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers in kitchen.
  • Observed ice scoop with handle in contact with ice at bar. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled spray bottle.
2/25/2011Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • No Violations Were Observed
7/26/2010Food-Licensing InspectionInspection Completed - No Further Action

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