{"id":296328,"date":"2026-09-29T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296328\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:06:22","slug":"pittsburgh-coffee-shop-ordered-closed-by-health-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296328\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh coffee shop ordered closed by Health Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pittsburgh Coffee shop in Pittsburgh has been ordered closed after an inspection by the Allegheny County Health Department.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors say Azal Coffee on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hills was operating without a valid health permit and failed to request a pre-opening inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Also, unlabeled package food was found along with \u201cinadequate temperature control procedures\u201d, lack of cross-contamination prevention and handwashing procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Leaking plumbing equipment was also observed along with \u201cimproperly stored toxics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Azal Coffee is at 2100 Murray Avenue is the former site of a Crazy Mocha coffee shop.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates on the shop\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 Pittsburgh Coffee shop in Pittsburgh has been ordered closed after an inspection by the Allegheny County Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3400,10372,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-296328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-health-department","tag-coffee-shop","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296328","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=296328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}