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This week on DineSafe: Cadillac Lounge, Caldense Bakery, Chinese Traditional Buns, Dhaba, Poonam Delite, Second Cup, Sinchon Food, Souvlaki Hut

Posted by Robyn Urback / May 29, 2012

Dinesafe TorontoThis week on DineSafe saw a list of "conditionally" condemned made up of both new and repeat offenders. Spots such as Caldense Bakery and Poonam Delite are, indeed, no stranger to the yellow flag, while others got their first taste of a less-than-stellar review for the first time (in recent years) this week. Cadillac Lounge is just one such example — spoiling its otherwise pristine record with six health and safety violations. Here are some of this week's DineSafe highlights.

Cadillac Lounge
Inspected on: May 24
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 6 (Minor: 1, Significant: 3, Crucial: 2)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate food temperature control, failure to ensure/provide for proper employee hygiene/handwashing

Caldense Bakery (Symington)
Inspected on: May 24
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 3 (Minor: 1, Significant: 1, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate food temperature control

Chinese Traditional Buns
Inspected on: May 18
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 7 (Minor: 0, Significant: 4, Crucial: 2)
Crucial infractions include: Failure to protect food from contamination, failure to ensure/provide for proper employee hygiene/handwashing

Dhaba
Inspected on: May 23
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 11 (Minor: 2, Significant: 7, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Failure to protect food from contamination

Poonam Delite
Inspected on: May 23
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 6 (Minor: 2, Significant: 1, Crucial: 2)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate pest control, failure to protect food from contamination

Second Cup (St. Clair and Bathurst)
Inspected on: May 22
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 6 (Minor: 2, Significant: 2, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate food temperature control

Sinchon Food
Inspected on: May 22
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 6 (Minor: 2, Significant: 2, Crucial: 2)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate food temperature control, failure to protect food from contamination

Souvlaki Hut (Harbord)
Inspected on: May 24
Inspection finding: Yellow (Conditional Pass)
Number of infractions: 8 (Minor: 3, Significant: 2, Crucial: 1)
Crucial infractions include: Inadequate food temperature control

Discussion

16 Comments

mike in parkdale / May 29, 2012 at 11:13 am
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not the caddy..... looks like I just have to stick with drinks and skip the food for a while.
Jeff / May 29, 2012 at 11:44 am
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Noooo not the caddy! Gonna have to agree with Mike on this one and stick with the beer
Green Please / May 29, 2012 at 01:18 pm
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Do any restaurants get GREEN on their first try or are you cherry picking the yellows and reds? If this is not the complete list of recent reviews, then you should provide the link to the rest of the recent reviews.
Informing us of the greens is valuable info too.
michael / May 29, 2012 at 02:06 pm
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We always get green passes BUT we had a Angry Inspector who threatened us with a Red sign because a few Cranberries 3-4 were on the floor behind the bar from that days prep of Drink Garnishes - he stayed in the place for over 3 hours and was so upset that he could not find something - he gave us a green pass sign finally and we never saw that inspector again LOL
fredfred / May 29, 2012 at 02:10 pm
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GreenPlease: google 'dinesafe'. Here's what you get.

http://app.toronto.ca/food2/index.jsp

You can search by establishments that get a pass (Green)
Don / May 29, 2012 at 02:17 pm
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I would think that the Greens are pretty obvious.
piero replying to a comment from Green Please / May 29, 2012 at 02:18 pm
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You can search for the greens yourself.

http://app.toronto.ca/food2/DineSafeMain
Chester Pape / May 29, 2012 at 02:31 pm
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Yes many restaurants do get greens on "first" inspection. One has to be careful about yellows, in a lot of cases what they find is extremely minor. Your local coffee shop has pastries sitting out on the counter without a cover over them? That's "failure to protect food from contamination", I've heard of one place that got yellow carded for the same infraction because the trays of food being carried from the kitchen to the buffet weren't covered in plastic wrap while being carried through the restaurant. Failure to provide/ensure employee hygiene can be as little as a single soap dispenser out of soap, it all depends on how much of a prick the inspector wants to be that day.

I really wish there was more complete information provided by DineSafe, as it is there's no way to differentiate between a restaurant that got dinged for not covering a tray of pastries from the one who put the drippy trays of raw chicken in the walk in fridge on top of the vegetables.
Ass Burger replying to a comment from Green Please / May 29, 2012 at 02:31 pm
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Why you gotta be so angry?
jeff replying to a comment from Chester Pape / May 29, 2012 at 02:45 pm
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Good point. Customers would be better served to know the full reasons for different colours.
Emily Post / May 29, 2012 at 03:57 pm
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I'm not surprised about the souvlaki hut, I got the runs the last time I had their chicken
ChefAldea / May 29, 2012 at 11:20 pm
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Hahahaha! The Caddy! What a wretched dump!
Charles replying to a comment from ChefAldea / May 29, 2012 at 11:44 pm
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Not a wretched dump at all!! One of the best patios in the city...
Patrick / May 30, 2012 at 08:17 am
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Some health inspectors seem to require at least one flaw that they can bitch about and have fixed before they will give a green. I leave one thermometer outside a fridge just so they can point it out and "fix" before they leave. Most inspectors are quite friendly and have a decent understanding of reality.
Food Handler Certified replying to a comment from Green Please / May 30, 2012 at 09:27 pm
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The vast majority of restaurants in fact get green. Like many things the City of Toronto promotes, DineSafe is used to beat up all restaurants good and bad. Very much like Ms. Urback is doing with this ridicules posting each week.

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