Looks like celebs on Robertson Blvd. will have to eat iffy food somewhere else today.
After getting slapped by the City Health Department with a "C" rating for having mold in an ice machine, gnats in bar glasses, chipping paint and a fridge that wasn't cold enough -- the Newsroom Cafe shut down for the day for "repairs."
7/9/2008 4:24 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
No Newsroom Today
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TMZ - PLEASE POST PHOTOS OF ANY CELEBRITIES HAVING EATEN THERE!!!!
Now THAT, would make my day!!
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I miss the livestream from there, was so much fun looking at the concrete and the 6 people who came and went in an hour.
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If you snooze, you loose...the news...health dept test...
The breakfast @ news cafe on ocean drive is yummy after a night of drinking.
Yeah
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THE IVY GAVE ME FOOD POISONING!!!
I got very very sick after eating at the Ivy. I called the owner and they said I was making it up. They also demanded to know if I went to an emergency room. When I got home I couldn't even get out of my bathroom for 6 hours that night and couldn't work the next day. It was horrible!
They serve the food so quickly after ordering it that my friends and I agree that they PRECOOK THE FOOD AND LEAVE IT AROUND UNTIL IT GETS ORDERED AND THEN THEY HEAT IT UP LIKE ON A GRILL!!!!!
My boyfriend had the fish and chips and mentioned that it tasted like leftovers from the day before like kind of refried fish. I had the lime chicken and swear I have never been sick like that before!
They want to turn the tables so fast so they can make $100 a person over and over and over in a day that they risk peoples lives with PRECOOKED UNSANITARILY KEPT FOOD.
NOBODY SPEAKS ENGLISH AT THE IVY - THERE IS NO MANAGEMENT WHO COULD SPEAK TO ME, THE OWNER WAS THE MOST ARROGANT & RUDE PERSON I EVER CAME ACROSS, THE WAITERS AND BUSBOYS BARELY CAN TAKE YOUR ORDER IN BROKEN ENGLISH, A VERY UNPLEASANT IRANIAN GIRL ANSWERED THE OFFICE PHONE, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHO THEY HAVE COOKING THE FOOD.
FAIR WARNING: DON'T GO TO THE IVY - THERE ARE TOO MANY OTHER GREAT PLACES TO GO.
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The News Room didn't build a reputation by serving bad food while he was there. In fact, all the "stars" ate there because of Chef Eddie J's commitment to health and great food!
Why else would it have become so popular? People are not fools and would not have kept coming back and bringing their friends and family back if it had not been Great Food.
The new owners obviously do not have the same commitment to excellence and attention to detail that Chef Eddie did and does have in his new place,
Interim Cafe, on 6th and Wilshire.
I know he has a high level of taste, and a commitment to serve clean healthy food no matter what.
These restauranteurs that bought the Newsroom, obviously donât have the same commitment.
Never fault the originator of all the great recipes and the whole concept of the News Room. he is still committed to serving healthy happy food for us all.
I suggest if you are missing Chef Eddie J's food try his new place, still in transition, but serving fine organic food while it goes thru it's re-design.
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