This is a serious time out.
Just months after it opened, DUMBO’s ballyhooed Time Out Food Market has temporarily closed after city health inspectors ordered most of its restaurants shut down for a host of stomach-churning health violations last week.
Altogether, officials closed down 14 of the bougie food court’s 21 eateries for dangerously storing food at 58 degrees — well above the required temperature of 41 degrees.
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“The NYC Health Department conducts food safety inspections to protect the health of New Yorkers, and when we inspected the Time Out Market’s refrigerator we found food at temperatures that could be potentially hazardous,” the agency said in a statement.
“Almost 60 degrees! That’s crazy dangerous! Breeding ground for all sorts of bad stuff! How could they do that? We are trained and drilled about that stuff every shift!” said Tara, a server at Cecconi’s, the waterfront Italian eatery that operates independent of the market in the same Empire Stores building.
Even worse, the people responsible for operating the market’s shared refrigerator were clueless about basic food-safety requirements.
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“Additionally, when asked for the refrigeration log, the operator could not produce full documentation meaning they had either not been keeping proper logs or they did not know the appropriate temperature for food storage,” Health officials said.
The agency couldn’t immediately name the operator.
The market, meanwhile, cooked up its own excuse for the closure, claiming on signs posted outside that the Brooklyn Bridge Park-fronting food hall was closed due to “mechanical issues in the space.”
Time Out Market — a subsidiary of Time Out Magazine — said in a statement that it was working with the Health Department to reopen.
Individual restaurants that are part of the market were hit with additional infractions — including for improperly constructed food-prep surfaces, a lack of hand-washing stations, poor plumbing and faulty sewage-disposal systems — that point to deeper issues with the pre-Civil War building itself, which was renovated by Midtown Equities and the HK Organization in 2016.
Reps for Midtown Equities did not return requests for comment.