Vent grease on food, mice in traps: Kansas City area restaurant inspections
From grease on the ceiling to an unmarked spray bottle, health inspectors in Missouri and Kansas found numerous violations at Kansas City area restaurants in recent weeks.
Dining establishments like sit-down restaurants, drive-thrus, gas stations and cafeterias are required to get food inspections, and governments have to release those inspections to the public.
In Kansas City, the city’s health department enforces the food code while in Kansas, the state’s Department of Agriculture handles inspections. The lower the number of violations, the better.
Most restaurants often correct violations at the time of the original inspection or shortly thereafter. The full inspections show how each establishment has corrected or is working to correct any remaining violations. They are available for Kansas City at inspectionsonline.us/foodsafety/mousakansascity/search.htm and agriculture.ks.gov.
Here are the restaurants in Kansas City and Johnson County that received seven or more critical violations or priority/priority core violations from May 25 to 31. During that time, no restaurants in Wyandotte County reached the threshold.
Reflections Kitchen + Kocktails
- Suspended after a May 28 follow-up inspection
- 7016 Troost Ave.
Both a dead mouse and a live mouse were caught in the same sticky trap on the kitchen floor of the Waldo area restaurant, the report stated. The inspector found “excessive amounts of mouse droppings” on a dry storage container, in addition to excrement inside a cabinet and on the floor of the smoothie area.
Reflections staff presented a pest control invoice at the required June 3 follow-up inspection. The restaurant previously had 12 critical violations for an April 22 routine inspection. Read Reflections’ full report.
Midtown Market - Desi Dhaba
- Suspended after May 29 complaint inspection
- 3967 Main St.
The inspector saw grease from the stove vent drip into food of the Indian restaurant, located inside of the Midtown Market grocery store. There was “excessive grease build up” on the walls, floors and ceiling of the kitchen.
The restaurant corrected all the violations according to a follow-up inspection June 4. The restaurant previously received nine critical violations for an April 10 routine inspection. Read Desi Dhaba’s full report.
Dragon Empire Chinese Buffet
- 11 violations after a May 29 complaint inspection
- 11560 W. 95th St. Overland Park
At the restaurant near Oak Park Mall, the inspector found an unmarked spray bottle containing a yellow liquid that the employee could not identify. Food on the buffet was not kept at the proper temperatures to prevent bacteria growth.
The results of the required follow-up inspection have not been published. Read the full report for Dragon Empire Chinese Buffet by searching for the restaurant on the Kansas inspection lookup.
