Top restaurant is among 10 premises forced to shut over food safety breaches

A well-known Dublin restaurant popular with TDs and senators was just one of 10 premises forced to close last month for breaching food safety regulations.

Town Bar and Grill on Kildare Street Leinster House received one of the 10 closure orders issued by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI).

Four other premises were issued with prohibition orders.

FSAI chief executive Prof Alan Reilly expressed concern that there was a continuing high level of closure orders being served on premises.

“It is not acceptable for any food business to potentially put their customers’ health at risk. Each closure order undermines consumer confidence in food safety which not only affects the food business involved, but the industry as a whole,” he said.

Four closure orders were served under the FSAI Act, 1998 on:

* Kebabish Original (restaurant), 40 Richmond Street South, Dublin 2;

* Bu Ali Tandoori (restaurant), 28 Clanbrassil Street Lower, Dublin 8;

* Town Bar and Grill (restaurant), 21 Kildare Street, Dublin 2;

* The Village Inn (public house) (Closed area: kitchen on first floor and ice machine on ground floor only), Church Street, Finglas, Dublin 11.

Six closure orders were served under the EC (Official Control of Foodstuffs) Regulations, 2010 on:

* Limerick Foodstore (grocery) (1st Floor only), 17 Davis Street, Limerick;

* Santori Indian Restaurant, Chapel Lane, Mill Race, Tuam, Galway;

* Bei Jing House (restaurant), College Road, Mountbellew, Galway;

* Mirchi (restaurant), 9 Townyard Lane, Malahide, Co Dublin;

* Rico’s (restaurant), 26A Richmond Street South, Dublin 2;

* Daybreak (grocery) (all activities carried out in the delicatessen), The Square, Ferns, Wexford.

One prohibition order was served under the FSAI Act, 1998 on Real Brazil (meat & meat products distributor), No 3 Sliabh Carrow, Ennis Road, Gort, Galway.

Three further prohibition orders were served under the EC (Official Control of Foodstuffs) Regulations, 2010 on: Real Brazil (grocery), Unit 6, The Grove, Crowe Street, Gort, Co Galway; Star Asia (grocery), 22-23 Moore Street, Dublin 1; and Fitzgerald’s Butchers, Main Street, Ballylanders, Limerick.