{"id":289119,"date":"2026-09-18T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289119\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:58:08","slug":"hibachi-restaurant-in-pittsburgh-area-under-consumer-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289119\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibachi restaurant in Pittsburgh area under Consumer Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A restaurant in the Pittsburgh has been hit with a Consumer Alert after an inspection on Thursday following a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The Allegheny County Health Department says the Saga Hibachi Steakhouse &amp; Sushi Bar at Mall Circle Driver in Monroeville was hit with five total violations, one considered high-risk.<\/p>\n<p>According to the inspection report At least 15 live cockroaches \u201cunder bar mesh that is lining shelf for the printer behind the sushi bar\u201d and behind a hand sink.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple dead roaches were seen in the kitchen and under hibachi grills and multiple dead flies were found on sticky fly traps above a food prep\/handling area.<\/p>\n<p>The inspection also says that \u201call areas of the facility are in dire need of deep cleaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors say a follow-up inspection is scheduled for September 28.<\/p>\n<p>For the alert to be lifted a more adequate pest control plan has to be put in place and a cleaning plan needs to be formed and implemented. <\/p>\n<p>To see the full inspection and any update to the restaurant\u2019s 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 restaurant in the Pittsburgh has been hit with a Consumer Alert after an inspection on Thursday following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3400,25108,10853,73,75,74,82101],"class_list":["post-289119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-health-department","tag-consumer-alert","tag-hibachi","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-saga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289119","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=289119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}