Expired medicine from 2005 on the shelves and dirty dishes that were stored as clean were just some of the violations health inspectors in Missouri and Kansas found at Kansas City-area restaurants last week.
Dining establishments like sit-down restaurants, drive-thrus, gas stations and grocery stores are required to get food inspections, and governments have to release those inspections to the public.
In Kansas City and Independence, each city’s health department enforces the food code, while in Kansas, the state’s Department of Agriculture handles inspections. The lower the number of violations, the better.
Most restaurants correct violations at the time of the original inspection or shortly after. The full inspections show how each establishment has corrected or is working to correct any remaining violations. They are available for Kansas City at inspectionsonline.us/foodsafety/mousakansascity/search.htm and Johnson and Wyandotte counties at portal.kda.ks.gov.
Here are the restaurants in Kansas City and Johnson County that received seven or more critical or priority and priority foundation violations from Aug. 9-15. No restaurants from Wyandotte County received seven or more violations during this time period.
Baramee Thai Bistro
Condensation dripping from a walk in-cooler was landing on packaged food. No employees had valid food handler cards during inspection. Food inside the cooler was stored inside grocery-style bags.
Stock Hill
Excessive flies were seen in the ware wash area, back prep kitchen, around the mop sink and the bar area. Lemon preserves that dated Nov. 10 and March 31 were stored in the back storage area. They were then discarded.
Multiple sauce containers on the main cook line were seen without dates. A leak was observed from the mop sink faucet handle, a non-critical violation.
Hotel Phillips Banquets
A live mouse was found stuck to an open sticky trap in the dry caged storage area. There were also mouse droppings seen underneath the shelving inside the dry food storage room. A person in charge provided their most recent pest control invoice from July 22, 2026.
Several open rodent bait stations were seen underneath shelving and equipment throughout the kitchen and dry storage rooms.
The high heat dish machine was unable to reach the minimum required temperature of 160 degrees. A container of cooked noodles and marinara inside the walk-in cooler was seen without date markings, though the food was discarded afterward.
Zero violations were found during an Aug. 18 follow up.
Addington Place of Shoal Creek
Grease build up was seen on the right side of the stove at the cook lines. One container of cooked broccoli and another with prepped carrots had date markings of Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 on them. There was also an observed buildup around the nozzles on the backsplash portion of the juice dispenser.
Louie’s Reserve
Black buildup was seen in the soda gun nozzle at the bar. Multiple buildups were seen in the cooler and on the floor. No employees at the time had valid food handler cards or a manager card available.
El Pueblito
Two open face sticky traps were seen in the prep area. A ceiling tile was missing above a slicer in the back prep area. A bag of onions was seen on the floor near the back area.
A white powder, which an employee said was placed by pest control service, was spread behind equipment and fixtures throughout the establishment.
An employee was seen washing their hands in the three-compartment-sink, which is not an approved automatic handwashing facility. An observed buildup was seen on a can opener blade in the back prep area.
Green sauce and cut peppers were seen without date labels. A label was then added to the peppers.
Gram & Dun
Half a pan of panko and a bowl of flour were stored directly on top of fried potato chips at the fry station. An employee was seen at the grill make table without a hair restraint.
There was a cracked ceiling tile over the basement three-compartment sink, as well as cracked and stained light shields over cookline. Inspectors want this addressed by Nov. 11.
Joy Wok Super Buffet
A container with ginger root was seen with a white fuzz on it. The ginger root was discarded. Yellow buildup was seen inside a microwave.
Three containers of beef were seen uncovered inside the walk-in freezer.
Hotel Lotus
Sliced sausage and diced potatoes were seen in a cooler with no date label. The inspector saw a stained ceiling tile above the oven.
Pegahs Family Restaurant
Several items marked from the week of Aug. 4 were seen and had to be discarded. Onion residue was on a vertical slicer despite being stored as clean.
Parker BP
Hot water at the 3-compartment-sink would only get to 82 degrees Fahrenheit. On the retail shelves, multiple medications had expirations dates that have passed.
K-Macho’s Mexican Grill and Cantina
Dishes that were stored as clean had stickers or food debris on their food contact surface. Mold was seen on the ceiling and back of the ice machine bin. A leak was seen under a three-compartment-sink.
Multiple bags of food had to be discarded, as they did not pass the 48-hour reduced oxygen packaging procedure.
Price Chopper #3912010 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Shawnee, KansasEight violations found during Aug. 11 inspection
A plastic container of tomatoes was inside a handwash only sink. Multiple food items were found with open dates that were past due.
In the deli area, multiple items didn’t have open dates and got discarded.
Price Chopper #600
Dozens of flies were seen in different areas, including a sink, dishes and around the mop sink. Inspector said they saw a children’s Tylenol that expired Nov. 2005.
Employees were seen cutting peas without wearing gloves. The salad that goes with the peas was discarded due to this action.
Bawarchi Biryanis
Multiple items were stored as clean but had visible residue. Raw chicken was stored in a non-food grade plastic bag and was making direct contact with the bag.
Visible mold was seen on carrots, cauliflower and cream cheese.
SPIN! Pizza
An employee was seen touching a pizza without gloves on after cutting it, leading to the pizza being discarded. Roughly 20 to 30 plastic storage containers and a rubber spatula in the dish clean storage space were found stored as clean with sticker residue/food debris on their food contact surface.
Kansas City-area restaurant suspensions
Three restaurants in Kansas City had their licenses suspended: Country View Market (deli), Vietnam Café and Red Bridge Farm Fresh Market (deli).
Country View Market (deli), located at 5802 Swope Parkway, was suspended following an Aug. 11 inspection due to multiple critical violations. The violations on the report include employees not having a food handler card, as well as no drain plugs being seen when observing the plumbing.
Vietnam Café, 522 Campbell St., was suspended following an Aug. 14 inspection due to a fire emergency. On the restaurant’s Facebook, they said they will be temporarily closed as they assess the damage and begin repairs.
Red Bridge Farm Fresh Market (deli), 11212 Holmes, was suspended following an Aug. 14 inspection due to food handler cards. During an Aug. 12 inspection, only one out of two employees had a food handler card during an audit.
This story was originally published August 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM.
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