{"id":197063,"date":"2026-05-19T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197063\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:48:08","slug":"pittsburgh-cafe-closed-due-to-sewage-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197063\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh cafe closed due to sewage HAZARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A caf\u00e9 in Pittsburgh was ordered closed on Monday by the Allegheny County Health Department after sewage backup was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>An inspection shows La Prima Espresso on 5th Avenue in Oakland was ordered closed after an \u201cactive sewage backup\u201d was found in the basement of the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWastewater, debris and fecal matter\u201d were found coming up from the drain.<\/p>\n<p>The backup is considered an imminent hazard and the caf\u00e9 is ordered closed until the plumbing is fixed with blockages removed.<\/p>\n<p>The entire basement must be disinfected as well and all of the plumbing work needs to be completed by a \u201cRegistered Master Plumber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see the full inspection report and latest status, visit the Health Department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleghenycounty.us\/Services\/Health-Department\/Food-Safety\/Alerts-Closures-and-Enforcements\/Consumer-Alerts-and-Closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A caf\u00e9 in Pittsburgh was ordered closed on Monday by the Allegheny County Health Department after sewage backup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3400,653,73,75,74,87496],"class_list":["post-197063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-health-department","tag-cafe","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sewage-backup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197063","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=197063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}