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Gross Out: Fenix Eatery & Bar gets Two “No Award” Inspections

By Amy Silverman Like Chelsea's Kitchen a couple blocks away, Fenix Eatery & Bar on Camelback Road recently received back-to-back "no award" ratings...
By Amy SilvermanOctober 23, 2008
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By Amy Silverman

Like Chelsea’s Kitchen a couple blocks away, Fenix Eatery & Bar on Camelback Road recently received back-to-back “no award” ratings.

According to the inspection report, the stored fish wasn’t cold enough, the bar soda nozzle had slime and utensils were soiled with “dried food residue”. The floor was dirty and so were the shelves of the walk-in cooler. And so on.

The oddest complaint from the inspector:

READY TO EAT TURKEY STORED ON TRAY WITH BEEF BLOOD AND IMITATION CRAB MEET STORED UNDER RAW SALMON.

Now that’s a mouthful.

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.

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