THE GRILLE

12001 AVENIDA VERDE
Florida
Pinellas County County

Overall Food Safety Rating

★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5)
Based on 5 health inspection reports

All Inspection Reports

Inspection Date: 5/29/2025

Inspection #: Visit ID: 10708410

  • 50-17-3:High Priority - Operating with an expired Division of Hotels and Restaurants license.
  • 02B-01-5:Intermediate - Menu does not identify which items contain raw or undercooked animal foods covered by the consumer advisory. Breakfast menu, avocado and lox bagel Warning
  • 41-17-4:Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Blue liquid, glass cleaner at server station

Inspection Date: 10/30/2024

Inspection #: Visit ID: 8769885

  • 14-11-5:Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Reach in cooler/freezer leaking from bottom on cookline
  • 12A-27-4:High Priority - Employee cracked raw shell eggs and then handled ready-to-eat food and/or clean equipment or utensils without washing hands. Operator coached employee on proper handling washing **Corrective Action Taken**
  • 09-01-4:High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Observed server touch bacon to arrange on plate. Operator coached employee **Corrective Action Taken**
  • 08A-20-5:High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit based upon minimum required cooking temperature. Chicken over whole muscle beef. Comminuted beef over seafood in cooler drawer under cook line Corrected On-Site

Inspection Date: 4/10/2024

Inspection #: Visit ID: 8568018

  • 14-01-5:Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Stainless prep pan used to scoop flour, no handle. Corrected On-Site
  • 02D-01-5:Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Flour not labeled. Corrected On-Site
  • 03A-02-5:High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. scallops (52F - Cold Holding); salmon (54F - Cold Holding) manager put items in freezer to rapid chill, got a late opening today.

Inspection Date: 3/8/2024

Inspection #: Visit ID: 8567545

  • 24-07-4:Basic - - From initial inspection : Basic - Cleaned and sanitized equipment or utensils not properly stored. Cleans plates stored in lowboy cooler under raw chicken. Corrected On-Site - From follow-up inspection 2024-03-08: **Time Extended**
  • 31B-04-4:Basic - - From initial inspection : Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. At drink station in kitchen - From follow-up inspection 2024-03-08: **Time Extended**
  • 23-03-4:Basic - - From initial inspection : Basic - Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Under cookline grill - From follow-up inspection 2024-03-08: **Time Extended**
  • 08A-05-6:High Priority - - From initial inspection : High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food.shell eggs over cooked beef in cooler drawer under cookline. Corrected On-Site - From follow-up inspection 2024-03-08: **Time Extended**

Inspection Date: 12/6/2023

Inspection #: Visit ID: 8370937

  • 24-07-4:Basic - Cleaned and sanitized equipment or utensils not properly stored. Cleans plates stored in lowboy cooler under raw chicken. Corrected On-Site
  • 31B-04-4:Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. At drink station in kitchen
  • 23-03-4:Basic - Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Under cookline grill
  • 08A-05-6:High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food.shell eggs over cooked beef in cooler drawer under cookline. Corrected On-Site
  • 02B-01-5:Intermediate - Menu does not identify which items contain raw or undercooked animal foods covered by the consumer advisory. Eggs Benedict Warning