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This Week on DineSafe: Coffee Lime, Gold Stone Noodle, Green Beanery, India Palace, Marche, Pho Orchid, Sandwich Box, Sunrise House

Posted by Robyn Urback / January 17, 2012

DineSafe TorontoThis week on DineSafe, those who were bad, were really bad. Granted, not bad enough to get shut down altogether, but the restaurants and cafes given conditional passes this week didn't simply manage a meager two or three infractions. No, take The Green Beanery in the Annex, India Palace on Queen West, and Gold Stone Noodle on Spadina — all of which were slapped with seven infractions. Beating them was Sandwich Box at Yonge and Eglinton with an impressive (unimpressive?) tally of nine, but the winner this week has to the pseudo big-chain-knockoff at Pape and Floyd named "Coffee Lime," which rang in with 11 total infractions.

The message from Toronto Public Health this week seems to be, "don't let your food go bad," but based on the lengths of these reports, it's obviously there were several other themes the inspectors were trying to convey. And I'm off to do a little more cooking from my own home kitchen.

Coffee Lime & Deli
Inspected on: January 10
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 11 (Minor: 4, Significant: 4, Crucial: 3)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate temperature control, failure to protect food from contamination, failure to ensure/provide for proper employee hygiene/handwashing

Gold Stone Noodle
Inspected on: January 9
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 7 (Minor: 2, Significant: 4, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate food temperature control

Green Beanery
Inspected on: January 10
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 7 (Minor: 5, Significant: 1, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Failure to protect food from contamination

India Palace
Inspected on: January 11
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 7 (Minor: 5, Significant: 2, Crucial: 0)
Crucial infractions include: N/A

Marche (Bay)
Inspected on: January 10
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 3 (Minor: 0, Significant: 1, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Failure to protect food from contamination

Pho Orchid
Inspected on: January 10
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 3 (Minor: 1, Significant: 1, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate food temperature control

Sandwich Box (Eglinton)
Inspected on: January 12
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 9 (Minor: 1, Significant: 5, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Failure to ensure/provide for proper employee hygiene/handwashing

Sunrise House
Inspected on: January 10
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 5 (Minor: 3, Significant: 2, Crucial: 0)
Crucial infractions include: N/A

Discussion

6 Comments

Alex / January 17, 2012 at 08:37 am
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I'm not at all surprised to see Green Beanery on the list. I've gone twice in the last month or so, and each time their were fruit flies all over their service area and out visiting me in the seating.

Doesn't bode well for their approach to food safety. You'd think with such a nice space and location they could get it together.
Tureen / January 17, 2012 at 08:53 am
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I have always wondered who actually eats at Coffee Lime...
are you appy / January 17, 2012 at 09:32 am
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Don't forget there's a dinesafe app.
It seems to work 75% of the time for me as in, the app functions okay.
Sometimes it freezes or just says f you I can't work right now.

Michael replying to a comment from are you appy / January 17, 2012 at 12:43 pm
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That app sounds like it's unionized.
Ryan Henson Creighton / January 17, 2012 at 12:49 pm
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Coffee Lime is possibly the world's greatest and most hilarious example of "we've stopped paying our franchise fees and don't have enough money to change our entire sign". It's the restaurant equivalent of those cheap-o Chinese dollar store action figures like "Spider-dude" and "Bat Avenger".
mondayjane / January 23, 2012 at 05:28 pm
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Green Beanery = I so don't get that place. It's reeks of social awkwardness, so dorky in a way that is in no way endearing. Who would actually want to SIT there? Not that sub-standard food-safe practices are going to boost their clientele, mind you.

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