Pandoras

I avoided eating at Pandora's after hearing of the green tinged prime rib.

I avoided eating at Pandora's after hearing of the green tinged prime rib.

I try to order it that way, improves the texture going in...and going out.

I avoided eating at Pandora's after hearing of the green tinged prime rib.

I use to eat the prime rib special all the time. When was the meat green?

Does that list make you a little queasy about eating out in general?

that list and stories about other places around here sure do

that list and stories about other places around here sure do

do tell.

Things like the following, from one local place's last inspection, are always a bit frightening to me. Want to get food poisoning, eliminate soap from the sinks. In Florida, it is a law that a sign must be placed in restrooms directing employees to wash their hands with soap. Note to restaurant owners and managers: you cannot wash your hands with soap if no soap is provided.

From a recent SoWal restaurant inspection:

Critical. Handwashing cleanser lacking at handwashing lavatory.

Critical. No soap or paper towels at waitstation handsink.

I avoided eating at Pandora's after hearing of the green tinged prime rib.

Can you elaborate on this a bit please?

Alert!!!! Pandora's will reopen in the spring according to my sources. New management will be in place. Please do not repeat this.

Can you elaborate on this a bit please?

A friend told me that if I ever ate there I couldn't order my meat the way I usually do (rare/medium rare) as anything that wasn't "well done" tended to have a green tinge, giving a new meaning to "aged beef".

Maybe the that is what gave the steaks such great flavor. I ate steaks at Pandora's maybe three times, and I always order R - MR, and the ones I ate at Pandora's were delicious. The steaks are probably the least likely to make you sick, out of all the critical issues cited. Now those room temperature crawfish are another story.

I'm sure it added flavor, but probably the kind I could do without

Maybe the that is what gave the steaks such great flavor. I ate steaks at Pandora's maybe three times, and I always order R - MR, and the ones I ate at Pandora's were delicious. The steaks are probably the least likely to make you sick, out of all the critical issues cited. Now those room temperature crawfish are another story.

I agree. Meat stays interiorly sterile, and the salting and heating on the outside should do in any bad stuff. They had really tasty steaks..I hope they do re-open with new management, much higher hygiene standards, and with new flooring--that tile grout was as gross as any of the other stuff.

I'll much rather eat rare steaks than butter and bread which was recycled coming back from customers who had eaten. Talk about the potential to spread germs.

Cuts of meat are generally safer from bacterial contamination than a processed meat (like ground beef) because the bacteria doesn't penetrate - but that only goes so far, it won't help if it is being turned by a dirty utensil, cooked on a dirty grill or sliced w/ an unclean knife.

Stories of green meat in a place cited for numerous critical health violations and a filthy floor. Why am I am not wishing I had a reservation for tomorrow night:roll:.

Alert!!!! Pandora's will reopen in the spring according to my sources. New management will be in place. Please do not repeat this.

Sorry, had to question this as the current manager is related to one of the owners.

Maybe working without an active license for 3 years has something to do with that. Who knows.

guess we'll cross them off the eats list ! even my kitchen is cleaner...

A friend told me that if I ever ate there I couldn't order my meat the way I usually do (rare/medium rare) as anything that wasn't "well done" tended to have a green tinge, giving a new meaning to "aged beef".

Over Ruled.

Anyone seen the show Kitchen Nightmares? I'm in love with this reality show, maybe we can get Pandoras on there?

I avoided eating at Pandora's after hearing of the green tinged prime rib.

This makes me so happy that I am a vegetarian!! Although it really ticks me off when I go into LOCAL restaurants and they offer NOTHING vegetarian on the menu and the server just looks at me like I am stupid when I can't order anything off the menu...Like I can pull a veggie plate outta my butt. (This actually happened to me last week at a VERY LOCAL restaurant...my last visit there was my last visit there;-))

I'll much rather eat rare steaks than butter and bread which was recycled coming back from customers who had eaten. Talk about the potential to spread germs.

You must be kidding. Surely they didn't do that. If they did, the owner/operater should be arrested. I have always disliked the place not beacuse of the quality of food, but because of the quality of employee. Rudest, most uncaring people I've ever run across in the restaurant industry.

If some of the things in this thread are true, the should just bulldoze the place and put up a freaking TGI Fridays.

Chiming in kinda late on this thread...

I bet I've gone to Pandora's a half dozen times on a winter weeknight, only to be told there's a 30-45 minute wait for a table in a nearly empty restaurant, because they didn't have enough wait staff on hand. The first time, it sounds like a fair and legitimate situation, but after several repeats, I quit trying.

JB, I am only reporting what I saw in the report. You can see it yourself right here.
"Each inspection report is a "snapshot" of conditions present at the time of the inspection."

a few from the report:

04-01-1 Critical. Cold holding equipment incapable of maintaining potentially hazardous food at proper temperatures. Observed reach in coolers behind cook line at 58 and 60 degrees farienheit. Small bag of crawfish thrown away. Approximately 1/2 lb.

05-09-1 Critical. No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit, reach in two door cooler.

07-03-1 Critical. Observed bread reused for making breadcrumbs/croutons in walk in cooler.

07-05-1 Critical. Observed garlic butter in reach in cooler being re-used.

08A-28-1 Critical. Observed food stored on floor in walk in cooler.

The 60F degree refrigerator scares the heck out of me.

You mention TGI Fridays, of which I am not a fan, but I bet you a TGI Fridays at that location would be the busiest restaurant on 30A.

put up a freaking TGI Fridays.

NNNOOOOOOO! a good japanese steak house and sushi

Sorry, but if Pandora's closes for good- the land reverts back to residential property.