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Update: Thuy Cafe owner Thuy Le known as WTSP reporter Beau Zimmer to return for an all-access visit to her kitchen Thursday. Responding to the complaint, division inspectors had visited Thuy June four and adopted up with a second inspection July 17. Whereas inspectors found 24 violations in June, together with 7-10 dry rat droppings around water heater” and meals storage errors, they found no evidence that rats had been being prepared for dinner.

I left my cell and office line and she or he by no means contacted me.” (His report additionally shows an worker telling him he has to leave the restaurant.) If the owners Vietnamese Sandwiches Thuy Cafe of Thuy Cafe wish to invite us again and show us the kitchen, we are always keen to come back again,” Zimmer stated.

My earlier evaluation nonetheless holds true except for the part about banh mi. Seasons Cafe down the street has upped their banh mi game, and there are other banh mi places that poppep up since my final assessment that do excellent job with banh mi.

Thuy Cafe has attracted an enormous native following for its Vietnamese sandwiches and recent fruit boba teas. But a story on WTSP/Channel 10 last week brought Thuy Cafe a more unwelcome type of publicity. Following the WTSP broadcast, Thuy Cafe posted a protracted message on its Fb page, reiterating that the rat grievance was not factual and that the video included misleading footage. I might come right here more typically if it wasn't for the proprietor's other restaurant in downtown St. Pete (La V), which is closer to where I reside.

But the rat angle undoubtedly got performed up prominently on air and on-line, the place the headline learn Complaint alleges Thuy Cafe cooked rats in kitchen.” The story additionally included footage of rats being skinned and cooked — footage, nevertheless, that was not shot at Thuy Cafe.