The New York City Health Department has found that Pongal Indian restaurant on Lexington Avenue in Murray Hill is not protecting the food from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service after it inspected the restaurant on March 11, 2008.
Pongal Indian restaurant received 19 violation points in the latest inspection on March 11, 2008, an improvement over the 38 violation points it received in its February 20, 2008 health inspection.
A NYC restaurant needs a score of 27 or less to pass the NYC Health Dept inspection.
Pongal passed the restaurant inspection by receiving 19 points.
Although an improvement over its previous horrid performance, Pongal’s latest violation points are still above the average violation point total of 14, for all NYC restaurants on their most recent inspection.
According to the NYC Department of Health inspection report of 3/11/2008, violations were cited in the following area(s) and those requiring immediate action were addressed.
Sanitary Violations observed at Pongal on 3/11/08:
1.) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
2.) Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140°F to 70°F or less within 2 hours and from 70°F to 45°F or less within 4 additional hours.
3.) Hot food not held at or above 140°F.
Pongal Indian Cuisine (Lex Ave) – Previous NYC Inspection Reports:
Date | Violation Points
02/20/2008 – 38
11/13/2007 – 27
11/28/2006 – 0
03/07/2006 – 10
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