Escobar throws out food that didn’t meet health code

The restaurant’s Southside location will undergo re-inspection.

During a recent routine health inspection, Escobar Restaurant & Tapas in Clayton County discarded numerous food items because of food safety violations.

Escobar Restaurant & Tapas, 1140 Mt. Zion Road, Morrow, scored 42/U, down from its previous score of 96/A. As a result, the restaurant will be reinspected.

Cheese, raw eggs, grits, pasta, and sour cream were above safe temperatures in a cooler and discarded.

Also tossed was a large container of collard greens that had not adequately cooled within six hours. The greens were in one tightly covered bowl instead of several partially covered shallow containers.

The restaurant had no approved procedure for its parcooked chicken wings, so these were discarded.

Among other violations, uncovered containers of ground beef, raw lamb and raw ground turkey were in a cooler. And par-cooked chicken wings were improperly stored next to raw eggs in the walk-in cooler.

Additionally, one of the coolers dripped condensation on a wrapped package of lava cakes.

ESCOBAR RESTAURANT & TAPAS

1140 Mt. Zion Road, Morrow. Score: 42/U.

ACROSS METRO ATLANTA

Here are other recent inspection scores for area restaurants.

Cobb County

■ Hikaru Ramen, 2014 Powers Ferry Road, Atlanta. 94/A

■ Peace Love & Pizza, 1050 E. Piedmont Road, Marietta. 100/A

■ Teriyaki Box, 745 Chastain Road, Kennesaw. 95/A

■ Willy’s Mexicana Grill, 4250 Roswell Road, Marietta. 100/A

Fayette County

■ Broadway Diner, 535 S. Glynn St., Fayetteville. 91/A

■ Mama Put Restaurant, 101 Kenwood Road, Fayetteville. 100/A

■ Olive Garden, 1380 Hwy. 85, Fayetteville. 99/A

■ Waffle House, 760 S. Glynn St., Fayetteville. 92/A

■ Wendy’s, 1102 N. Peachtree Pky., Peachtree City. 91/A

Gwinnett County

■ Bamboos Caribbean Restaurant, 1417 Grayson Hwy., Lawrenceville. 96/A

■ Don Pedro Mexican Food, 4085 Lawrenceville Hwy., Lilburn. 96/A

■ Jang Won Jung, 2645 N. Berkely Lake Road, Duluth. 85/B

■ Mama Empanadas, 605 Indian Trail Lilburn Road, Lilburn. 95/A