{"id":168031,"date":"2026-04-16T23:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:22:12","slug":"imminent-health-hazard-forces-closure-of-pittsburgh-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168031\/","title":{"rendered":"Imminent Health Hazard Forces Closure Of Pittsburgh Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH, PA \u2014 The Allegheny County Health Department has ordered the closure of a Pittsburgh lounge because of a health hazard.<\/p>\n<p>Choices Lounge on Webster Avenue in the city&#8217;s Hill District has been shut down. <\/p>\n<p>A recent inspection found that wastewater is actively leaking through the ceiling of men&#8217;s restroom and is being tracked throughout the establishment. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, rodent droppings were found in the kitchen. <\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;closed&#8221; placard is posted at an establishment when an imminent health hazard is identified at a restaurant or kitchen or if it has been operating without proper permits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH, PA \u2014 The Allegheny County Health Department has ordered the closure of a Pittsburgh lounge because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-168031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}