A popular restaurant in Pittsburgh is under Consumer Alert after a recent inspection by the Allegheny County Health Department.
An inspection shows The Yard Gastropub on 5th Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh was hit with two violations, one high-risk, the other, medium-risk.
The high-risk violation is due to multiple food items found measured above the safe, cold-holding temperature of 41 degrees or lower.
They include tomatoes and fresh mozzarella at 42 degrees and cream cheese at 46 degrees in a prep table.
Another prep table had sliced tomatoes and “2 large containers of eggplant parm” temped at 45 degrees. Those items were thrown away.
In a drawer style cooler underneath a flat-top several items of raw steak, burgers, chicken and meatball were temped between 46050 degrees. All of those items were thrown away.
In a walk-in cooler, slicked tomatoes, cooked macaroni, dressings and bacon were above the save-holding zone. All of those items were thrown away.
The ambient air temperature of the walk-in cooler was 51 degrees at the time of inspection with the walk-in keg cooler measuring at 50 degrees.
The inspection report states a complaint inspection was conducted on Tuesday with a follow-up on Thursday and that the cold-holding violations were not corrected during reinspection.
The restaurant has 10 days to correct the issues or will be ordered closed.
See the latest status for the restaurant here.
This Consumer Alert only affects The Yard location on 5th Avenue. Other Yard locations are not under the alert.
