Popular Pittsburgh Restaurant Hit With Consumer Alert

PITTSBURGH, PA — The Allegheny County Health Department has issued a consumer alert for the Silk Elephant restaurant on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill.

• A recent inspection found:

• Sauces and condiments on a shelf sitting directly on mouse droppings and cockroach droppings.

• Some cardboard lining the shelves in the a storage area was covered in cockroach droppings and mouse droppings.

• Four live German cockroaches: one on the wall by a sink, one on a shelf in the dry storage area, one on the rice cooker on the preparation table, and one on a cart by a sink.

• Old residue observed on cutting boards in the preparation kitchen, food containers, rice cookers, wall-mounted date-marking dispensing apparatus, shelving at the service station, preparation cooler lid and corners, kitchen scales, and knives.

• Multiple food items stored at unsafe temperatures.

The restaurant remains opened while the violations are being addressed.

See the full inspection report here.

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