{"id":305654,"date":"2026-05-08T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305654\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:59:08","slug":"caribbean-restaurant-in-pittsburghs-oakland-neighborhood-hit-with-consumer-alert-by-health-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305654\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean restaurant in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Oakland neighborhood hit with consumer alert by health department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular Caribbean restaurant in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Oakland neighborhood has been hit with a consumer alert by the Allegheny County Health Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Allegheny County Health Department posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleghenycounty.us\/Services\/Health-Department\/Food-Safety\/Alerts-Closures-and-Enforcements\/Consumer-Alerts-and-Closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">consumer alert on its food safety page<\/a>, saying that the Caribbean Village Fusion restaurant along Cable Place was cited for numerous code violations following a health inspection earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The health department said the violations were for things like unlabeled food items, inadequate refrigeration, inadequate cleaning and sanitization, and lack of thermometer use, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleghenycounty.us\/files\/assets\/county\/v\/1\/government\/health\/documents\/food-safety\/food-inspection-reports\/2026\/caribbean-village-fusion_foodsafety_inspection_report_20260505.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">inspection report<\/a>, three of the violations were determined to be of the high risk nature.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors said that the restaurant will need to correct the high and medium risk violations for the consumer alert to be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>A follow-up inspection is expected to take place next week and inspectors said that if the high and medium risk violations aren&#8217;t corrected, the restaurant will be ordered to close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular Caribbean restaurant in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Oakland neighborhood has been hit with a consumer alert by the Allegheny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[128693,143,145,144,6184],"class_list":["post-305654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-allegheny-county-health-department","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}