Barcelona Burger, Showmars: What Kitchen Inspections Found

MOORESVILLE, NC — Recent health inspections at 16 Mooresville area restaurant kitchens found numerous violations, from out-of-date food to a jar of ointment sitting above a food prep cooler.

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 Mooresville and elsewhere in Iredell County, performed by the Iredell County Health Department.

All recently inspected restaurants in Mooresville kept their "A" health rating, however multiple violations were found.

A Feb. 21 inspection at Amaravati documented 10 violations, for example, found pans of raw chicken, goat and fish stored above ready-to-eat foods in a walk-in cooler, heavy cream found stored warm to the touch, black residue and debris behind a sink and bags of clean linen stored on the floor of a back hallway. The inspector also spotted a jar of Vick’s VapoRub on a shelf above the prep cooler.

At Showmars, a Feb. 21 inspection found 10 violations that included a bottle of spray sanitizer stored on a prep table above small bowls, a large container of macaroni and cheese that was out of date, areas of the kitchen in need of cleaning and sour cream and lettuce held at improper temperatures that had to be discarded.

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Results from the Iredell County Health Department inspections conducted Feb. 20 — Feb. 26, 2019 are listed below. You may look up your favorite restaurant or find more detailed information about this latest batch of inspections here.

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