Disturbing health inspection follows rat allegedly found in soup
Posted March 26, 2019 7:16 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – In December, a dead rat allegedly found in a bowl of chowder made one Gastown restaurant infamous.
A health inspection ordered after that incident is revealing some stomach-churning details about the conditions inside the kitchen where the soup from the Crab Park Chowdery was prepared.
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According to the report, “a thick accumulation of rodent excrement,” and other debris were found on plumbing lines that were above cooking equipment, a cockroach was spotted running over the head of the Chowdery’s owner, and mouse droppings were found inside the walk-in-cooler, and in the food prep and storage areas.
There was no hand-wash sink in the kitchen and one of the food preparation tables was directly underneath a sewer line.
In all, the report says, “general sanitation was poor,” the food was “unfit for human consumption” and the owner was ordered to throw out all the chowder.
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The report was prepared in late December after an Instagram post showing what appeared to be a dead rat inside a bowl of chowder went viral.
The soup was not prepared at the Chowdery, but in the basement of a different restaurant, Mamie Taylor’s. That restaurant had to close after the inspection, but were allowed to re-open the next day.
Crab Park Chowdery closed its doors in January, however a food truck bearing it’s name is still operating.
