Restaurants in Goulburn, Jindabyne and the south coast fined for food safety breaches
Planning a road trip soon? These are the restaurants in popular stopovers near Canberra you might want to miss.
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Restaurants at popular summer holiday spots near Canberra were among those to be fined and “named and shamed” for having grubby kitchens, serving substandard food or having lax pest control last year.
The eateries in Goulburn, Sussex Inlet and Jindabyne were among the hundreds of restaurants in NSW issued fines for breaches of Food Safety Regulations, according to the state’s most recently updated register of penalty notices.
ACT Health also has a similar register, but it has not updated it in more than six months, despite at least two popular eateries being successfully prosecuted.
Goulburn Thai on Auburn St, Goulburn, was in March fined a total of $880 for failing to maintain its premises to the required standard of cleanliness and failing to take all practicable measures to prevent pests entering the food premises.
Despite the fines, the restaurant draws rave reviews online and has a loyal following of local customers.
Also on Auburn St, Goulburn, Emperor Asian Restaurant was fined $1540 for failing to store a potentially hazardous food material under temperature control.
In Jindabyne, Namaste Indian Cuisine was hit with three fines totalling $3300 for selling unsafe food, failing to store food in a way likely to prevent it from contamination and failing to store ensure equipment was clean and sanitary.
The restaurant, on Kosciuszko Rd, had previously received warnings from authorities over all three breaches.
In the popular coastal getaway town of Sussex Inlet, 22nd End Chinese and Australian Cuisine was hit with $2640 in fines for cleanliness and pest control breaches.
The restaurant, at the Sussex Inlet Bowlo, has what one online reviewer described as an “extensive menu”, with items as diverse as soft shell crab, chicken schnitzel, lasagne and pizza with a sweet chilli sauce base.
In Nowra, the Bridge Tavern was fined $880 for failing to keep fixtures, fittings and equipment clean.