The Boston Globe “Spotlight” report on restaurant inspections in Boston is really fabulous.
(a) It makes you want to check out The Mayor’s Food Court (City of Boston listing of inspections) before you go eat someplace.
(b) It makes you want to eat at Legal Seafoods.
(c) It makes you wonder who Jamie Mammano knows.
(d) It makes you giggle. One example of a priceless quote that, Bless the Globe, didn’t hit the cutting room floor: ‘Milano, asked about the rodent issue, said: “I take objection to the word ‘rodent.’ It’s mice droppings.” And mice, he said, “are in the same family as squirrels.”‘ (Milano is the owner of The Union Oyster House)
(e) It makes you better understand why foodborne illness is on the rise in the US. With poorly trained employees and mediocre inspection/enforcement at some of the “best” restaurants in the country, what does this say for the ‘neighborhood’-style chains? If the $40 a plate restaurants can’t seem to afford to enforce good cleaning practices, then how could the $10 restaurant pull it off?
