Restaurant Evaluator

While searching for a restaurant on Yelp, I was curious to know what these letter grades of the Restaurant Inspection indicate.  
So, I started to search for the top restaurants in NYC on ZAGAT because they are supposed to be the cleanest. 

Pretty expensive and I am sure they offer very delicious dishes! (28-29 out of 30 must be good, especially if anyone is willing to pay that much!)

So, I parsed Yelp links, and merged with the inspection data from The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. 

I added the links of the top 10 restaurants on ZAGAT. 

Please excuse the ugly user interface since it is only used by me. The purpose of this program is to keep a list of restaurants that I like, so that I can easily look up for phone numbers and addresses. 

These violations were found from these top 10 restaurants:
1. Le Bernardin: 

• Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit - 01/31/2013
• Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. -04/10/2014
• Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. - 08/27/2013

2. Bouley

• Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas. -03/14/2014
• Shellfish not from approved source, improperly tagged/labeled; tags not retained for 90 days. - 09/23/2014
• Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility's food and/or non-food areas - 12/04/2014
  

            (I will probably stop here)

3. Jean-Georges

• Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. - 04/05/2013
• Nuisance created or allowed to exist. Facility not free from unsafe, hazardous, offensive or annoying conditions.- 04/11/2014

4. Gotham Bar and Grill
         I could not parse data for this restaurant.  Maybe, I could, but I did not attempt to. 

5. Eleven Madison Park

• Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred - 05/07/2013
• Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit. - 05/07/2013

6. Daniel
        I could not parse data again.  
        If I see more of results like this, then maybe I should find a different way to merge the data. 

7. Sushi Yasuda

•  Single service item reused, improperly stored, dispensed; not used when required.  -07/14/2014 
•  Cold food item held above 41 F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38F) except during necessary preparation.  - 05/20/2014
• Food contact surface not properly maintained. - 05/20/2014

8. Gramercy Tavern

• Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. - 06/02/2014
• Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. - 06/02/2014
• Live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas. - 07/07/2014

9. Peter Luger Steak House

• Proper sanitization not provided for utensil ware washing operation.-02/28/2013
•  Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas. -03/13/2015
• Live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas. - 02/28/2013
• Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist - 03/13/2015

10. La Grenouille

• Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.- 04/09/2014
• Cold food item held above 41F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38F) except during necessary preparation.- 03/05/2013
• Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.-04/09/2014

This concludes my finding.  Thanks for reading!

*References: 
Top 100 data: 
https://www.zagat.com/best-restaurants/new-york

Inspection data (Jan 2013 - Apr 2015)
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/DOHMH-New-York-City-Restaurant-Inspection-Results/xx67-kt59

* Please note that the most, if not all, of these violations may/should have been resolved by now. This is a personal project using publicly available data without any intention to harm or damage.  Request for deletion:kimtaehoon@post.harvard.edu