Wood ‘n Chimney Prahran fined $15K for Food Act breaches
A dirty Prahran pizzeria has been fined $15,000 for falling well short of food hygiene standards. The Greville St eatery was also slammed by customers in online reviews.
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A dirty Prahran pizza shop has been fined $15,000 for failing to keep live animals out of the kitchen.
Wood ‘n Chimney in Greville St has a three star rating on Google, with reviews by unhappy customers slamming the slow service, “off chips”, serving up “inedible” and “undercooked” food and mucking up orders.
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The business was added to the State Government’s food safety convictions register this month after it was fined in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court for repeated breaches of the Food Act dating to November last year.
Offences listed on the register included the business’s failure to maintain fixtures and fittings, failing to keep live animals out of food handling areas and not keeping the restaurant clean.
The business could not be reached when the Leader phoned last week.
And Stonnington Council remained tight lipped when asked for further details about what its inspectors found when they visited the store.
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Stonnington chief executive Stuart Draffin said the council took food safety seriously and would take “all action necessary” to protect the public.
“Specific information around food safety breaches is confidential between the proprietor and (the) council,” he said.
The director of Wood ‘n Chimney, Rohit Sareen, was also ordered by the court to pay the council’s costs of $1722.
The restaurant is one of several inner suburban restaurants to be added to the register recently, including Satay Inn Malaysian Restaurant in Denmark St, Kew, which was fined $3000 and ordered to pay $1500 in court costs for failing to keep the premises clean and preventing food contamination.
Japanese Gourmet Kenji in Camberwell was also added to the register last year.
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