These Restaurants Were Recently Fined For Failing Health Inspections By The City Of Montreal

The city of Montreal regularly publishes restaurant health or safety code violations on its website. The "List of Offenders" includes information about specific contraventions as well as any resulting fines.

Below, we've compiled all of the restaurant violations for which the city delivered judgments in the month of April, the most recent month with available data. All information comes directly from the municipal website.

Note, however, that health infractions vary greatly in their severity. Violations on this list involve everything from the presence of contaminants to inadequately covered hair or beards.

You can view the list on the city of Montreal website here.

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PASTA EXPRESS

1501 Rue Fleury Est

Date of infraction: 14 July 2017

Date of judgment: 8 April 2019

Total fines: $800

Infraction:

• Presence of contaminants, pollutants, animals, insects, or their excrements.

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TRATTORIA IL PIATTO PIENO

177 Rue Saint-Zotique Est

Dates of infractions: 8 December 2016; 12 April 2017; 20 June 2017

Date of judgment: 4 April 2019

Total fines: $2,800

Infractions (3): 

• A heat-altering product (with the exception of whole fresh fruits and vegetables) was not "kept constantly at an internal and ambient temperature not exceeding 4C."

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LOTUS BLEU

4847 Rue de Verdun

Date of infraction: 21 August 2017

Date of judgment: 8 April 2019

Total fines: $1,500

Infraction:

• Premises, vehicles, equipment, materials or utensils were not adequately clean.

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BOCADILLO

3677 Boul. Saint-Laurent

Date of infraction: 3 October 2017

Date of judgment: 5 April 2019

Total fines: $250

Infraction:

• "Persons involved in product preparation, washing or cleaning of equipment and materials" did not adequately cover their hair or facial hair.

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GRILLADES TARBOOSH

6000 Ch. de la Côte-des-Neiges

Date of infraction: 9 October 2017

Date of judgment: 8 April 2019

Total fines: $1,300

Infraction:

• Premises, vehicles, equipment, materials or utensils were not adequately clean.

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BAGEL ET CAFÉ HINNAWI BROS.

372 Rue Sherbrooke Est

Date of infraction: 27 September 2017

Date of judgment: 5 April 2019

Total fines: $250

Infraction:

• "Persons involved in product preparation, washing or cleaning of equipment and materials" did not adequately cover their hair or facial hair.

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LE PARTICULIER

611 Boul. De Maisonneuve Ouest

Date of infraction: 12 September 2017

Date of judgment: 5 April 2019

Total fines: $250

Infraction:

• A heat-altering product (with the exception of whole fresh fruits and vegetables) was not "kept constantly at an internal and ambient temperature not exceeding 4C."

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SATONUT

9380 Rue Charles-De La Tour

Dates of infractions: 01 August 2017; 14 August 2017

Date of judgment: 25 April 2019

Total fines: $8,000

Infractions (2):

• "Layout of the installations, the execution of the operations of preparation, packaging," storage or processing of the products "could affect the safety of the products or the sanitary conditions of the exploitation."

• According to the city of Montreal, "every person who contravenes an order made under any of sections 33.9.1 to 33.11.1 is liable to a fine of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent offense, to a fine of $15,000 to $45,000." These sections of the provincial Law on Food Products concern potentially hazardous circumstances.

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RESTAURANT RINO PIZZA (Closed)

312 Rue Fleury Ouest

Date of infraction: 25 September 2017

Date of judgment: 15 April 2019

Total fines: $1,600

Infraction:

• Premises, vehicles, equipment, materials or utensils were not adequately clean.

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ARAMARK (BOMBARDIER #2297)

1800 Boul. Marcel-Laurin

Date of infraction: 27 April 2018

Date of judgment: 11 April 2019

Total fines: $2,800

Infraction:

• Presence of contaminants, pollutants, animals, insects, or their excrements.

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BOUCHERIE HONGROISE (1984)

3843 Boul. Saint-Laurent

Date of infraction: 7 May 2018

Date of judgment: 8 April 2019

Total fines: $1,300

Infraction: 

• Presence of contaminants, pollutants, animals, insects, or their excrements.

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PIZZERIA ALMONDO

7695 Rue Centrale

Date of infraction: 22 August 2017

Date of judgment: 30 April 2019

Total fines: $250

Infraction:

• A heat-altering product (with the exception of whole fresh fruits and vegetables) was not "kept constantly at an internal and ambient temperature not exceeding 4C."

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LE ANNE DELICES D'ASIE DU MARCHE JEAN-TALON

7070 Av. Henri-Julien

Date of infraction: 18 October 2017

Date of judgment: 5 April 2019

Total fines: $250

Infraction:

• A "perishable product sold hot or served hot to the consumer" was not "kept at an internal temperature of at least 60 ° C until delivery."

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MARCHE NUVO

1263 Rue Jean-Talon Est

Dates of infractions: 18 August 2016; 15 June 2016

Date of judgment: 12 April 2019

Total fines: $2,750

Infractions (2):

• "Deception, misrepresentation" or false claim about the product, its packaging, or the abilities of the "producer, preparer, manufacturer, canner, conditioner, distributor or agent of sale."

• Sale or transport of a "product intended for human consumption which is unfit for that consumption" or "altered so as to render it unsuitable for that consumption."

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Refer to the city of Montreal website here for the list of health infractions.