By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee, the Stranger:
King County health officials shut down Skillet Street Food earlier this week after inspectors found a whole bunch of problems in the big silver Airstream trailer:
- Operating without valid food business permit or plan approval
- Potentially hazardous foods at unsafe temperatures
- Inadequate facilities to control temperatures of potentially hazardous foods
- Handwashing facility not working
- No available hot water
UPDATE (6/6 @ 11:25 am): Skillet’s blog says they “voluntarily shut down the trailer with the HD’s assistance” last Monday after they decided to temporarily use an as-yet-un-Health-Department-approved trailer when they’re other, approved trailer broke down:
That was the wrong choice. Hence the health dept had no choice but to shut us down. They were just doing their job and it was nobody’s fault but our own. We were operating the next evening as usual and will continue to do so tonight, this weekend and beyond…”
Then, we received an email this morning entitled “Skillet Schedule Change”:
We will be serving up some grub at the mariners games today and tomorrow from 11-2.
So perhaps they won’t be here after all…
Skillet Street Food started spending Saturdays in Columbia City this spring after RVP readers hassled them until they simply couldn’t resist. Photo/do communications, inc.
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Bummer – hope they get the problems fixed and show up. I’ll eat there tomorrow. Hope King County looks at similar places with an equally discerning eye.
I only ate there once, not impressed.
West Seattle Blog says they are back open:
http://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=17560
But this says they are still closed (or should be closed) http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/ehs/foodsafety/inspections/closures.aspx
Funny that they would shut this place down, considering that these same health officials allow the gambling den on Rainier in Hillman City to operate without food permits, despite that they have a big banner on the front of the building proclaiming they are a deli, and that they also serve patrons food…
Don’t want too many yuppies in the valley, might foil Nickel’s goal of concentrating crime and poverty.
Considering some of the places I see serving up food, it is hard to imagine the criteria for closing a place down.
On the other hand, given the list of violations, aren’t most of those obvious? No refrigerator/cooler (unsafe temperatures), no permit, no wash water. I mean, I don’t even work in food, but I’ve been around long enough to get the basics. If I’m going to pay $9 for a burger, I would like to think the proprietor has a clue what they are doing.
Might have been a bad day, though – maybe they didn’t have the full setup on inspection day.
Then again, I was really disappointed with the quality for the price. Granted, I didn’t have the burger. But even when they do open, I won’t be going back.
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