Last Meal at Donohue’s

UPDATE:  Donohue’s re-opened by DOH as of 2/18/11!

Good news!

This is a sketch of place mats and drinks in a booth at Donohue’s Steak House.  It was this night and we enjoyed sharing a meal with writer, blogger, and beer-drinking ironman Marty Wombacher.  It was a fun evening, as you can see from the report on the  365 blog.  No one is talking about it, but Donohue’s was closed down a few weeks ago by the City Health Department for various violations.  That’s not good, because it’s an old stand-by for us.  Apparently we were lucky to escape with our lives after eating there, but I never had a problem.  There’s some mystery about the closing.  You can look up the reports on the Department of Health website by searching for Donohue’s Steak House.  The inspection that resulted in the closing was January 10.  I read it maybe a week later when I heard about it, and there were a bunch of violations listed, probably seven or eight, including one citing the staff interfering with the inspector.  But I looked up the report again just now and the only violations listed are for mice.  So what happened to the rest of the report?  Why would it be changed?  There is some jazz on the bottom of the page about how the restaurant can challenge a citation in a hearing, and this may change the score, but it doesn’t say anything about disappearing violations being part of that process.  Anybody out there in tv land that knows something about this, I would like to hear it.

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