2 Investigators: Some Pricey Restaurants Racking Up Health-Code Violations

December 15, 2011 12:00 AM " CHICAGO (CBS)- Chicago has become one of the top restaurant cities in the world. So, the 2 Investigators wondered just how safe it is to eat at the fanciest of these restaurants.

CBS 2’s Pam Zekman used restaurant guides to select 26 of the city’s priciest restaurants and then pulled their health inspection records from the past two years. Helping review them was food safety expert Kantha Shelke.

“Any establishment that serves food, particularly at the prices that these restaurants do, they have to take their business seriously and make sure the food is safe,” she says.

RESTAURANT DATA: READ THE RESULTS HERE

The most common critical violations found: temperature violations that could make customers sick. The regulations require that potentially hazardous food be stored at 40 degrees or less.

At Rosebud Prime, 1 S. Dearborn, inspectors found clam soup stored at 62.3 degrees and cooked pork at 52.8 in a walk-in cooler. The food was discarded.

And inspectors found that both faucets at a large three-compartment sink were not working properly. Employees were “going on their knees” to reach valves under the sink to turn the water on and off, records said.

All of those factors resulted in a failed inspection. "

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