Health Department Orders Closure Of Popular Pittsburgh Restaurant

PITTSBURGH, PA — The Allegheny County Health Department has ordered the closure of the China Star restaurant on Murray Avenue in Greenfield for numerous health code violations.

All food contact surfaces during a recent inspection with grease and/or old food residue and rodent droppings. Packages of chilies in a basement storage room also were contaminated by rodent droppings.

A dead insect was found in a flour bucket at the top of the stairs to the basement. A large bucket of sauce in the walk-in cooler in the basement had a blue and white mold-like substance growing around the inside.

Moldy green peppers were discovered in a walk-in cooler downstairs.

.A lack of handwashing was observed while food was being prepared in the kitchen.

It's unclear when - or if - the restaurant will reopen.

See the entire inspection report here.