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(Scroll down for video) A government agency shut down a popular kosher restaurant in Manhattan, according to reports.
Taam-Tov, the trendy Diamond District kosher restaurant, was closed by the Health Department of the city after inspectors found numerous violations on October 11.
The Russian-kosher restaurant located at 41 West 47th Street, known for offering low cost stuffed cabbage leaves, kebabs and pastries stuffed with meat, was found to have 55 health violations, according to the Department of Health.
The restaurant employees were collecting food with their bare hands and not covering food when storing it, inspectors found.
Inspectors also found evidence of live mice in the restaurant, along with cockroaches in food areas.
The restaurant has been praised by food critics and average food hunters of Midtown Manhattan Midtown. In 2007, The New York Times called it “the best deal on a street where you can end up spending a fortune.”
This is not the first brush with trouble Taam-Tov had with the Health Department. In January 2011, it accumulated 93 violation points for not refrigerating the food and the lack of an adequate hand washing facility.
Phone calls to the restaurant were not immediately returned Tuesday.
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