18 Health Violations Documented At Charlotte Restaurant

CHARLOTTE, NC — Recent kitchen inspections at Charlotte-area restaurants found a variety of violations, including one restaurant with 18 violations ranging from broken floor tiles collecting stagnant water to crates of milk sitting in standing water, according to Mecklenburg County public health officials.

Do you truly know how clean your favorite coffee shop or restaurant is? Find out with the most recent restaurant and food service inspections in Charlotte, Huntersville, Davidson, and elsewhere in Mecklenburg County, performed by the Mecklenburg County Health Department.

County health officials recently inspected 180 restaurants in the Charlotte-metro area. Some of the lowest scores were given to the following restaurants:

• Las Meras Tortas, 14601 Statesville Road, Huntersville — 87.5/ B
• B Good Tryon, 400 S. Tryon Street — 87.5/ B
• Holler & Dash, 2725 South Boulevard — 81.5/ B

As Las Meras Tortas, a Jan. 7 inspection found 14 violations, including raw steaks stored above ready to eat food and more than 10 containers of food items such as cooked chicken, beef, pork not kept at proper cold temperatures and were voluntarily discarded and food with no date marks.

A Jan. 8 inspection at B Good Tryon documented 15 violations, including unwashed produced stored above ready-to-eat food; an employee was seen cracking a raw egg then make a smoothie without changing their gloves; and food items without proper time and date markings or held at the proper cold temperatures.

At Holler & Dash, an inspection conducted Jan. 13 found 18 health violations that included floor tiles that were broken and collecting stagnant water; crates of milk stored on the floor of a walk-in cooler where there was standing water; improper hand washing and employee beverages sitting on food prep surfaces.

Results from the Mecklenburg County Health Department inspections conducted Jan. 2 through Jan. 14, 2020 are listed below. You may look up your favorite restaurant or find more detailed information about this latest batch of inspections here.