Brazilian steakhouse on Danforth shut down by health inspectors

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A Brazilian steakhouse in downtown Toronto is closed until further notice after city health inspectors found several violations.

Rodeo Brazilian Steakhouse, located at 95 Danforth Ave., prides itself on being the city’s first all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouse, serving up everything from delicious barbecued meats and seafood, appetizers and salads.

Rodeo received a closure notice from Toronto Public Health on Friday for 10 infractions, but it was one crucial violation that forced the shutdown.

“Food premise maintained in manner permitting health hazard (insects),” resulted in a summons and health hazard order, pending Monday, according to Toronto Public Health’s DineSafe website.

A TPH spokesperson said that “the presence/evidence of insects in the food premises caused conditions resulting in a health hazard,” prompting the closure. They said a second crucial infraction, “‘food premise maintained in manner permitting adverse effect on food,’ may be cited on a conditional pass.”

The restaurant was also served five significant infractions and three minor ones.

TPH said inspectors found Rodeo failed to ensure equipment surfaces were cleaned as necessary, failed to clean multi-service articles after use and the hand-washing station was used for something other than hand-washing for employees.

They also said the restaurant failed to protect against the breeding of pests and did not retain records of pest-control measures taken for one year.

As for the restaurant’s three minor violations, it failed to ensure food-handlers protected against contamination by hair, failed to protect against the entry of pests and the walls in the food-handling room were not maintained in good repair.

A detailed list of infractions at Toronto restaurants can be found on DineSafe.

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