House of Prime Rib admits its meat may have gotten people sick, amid deluge of complaints
House of Prime Rib admits its meat may have gotten people sick, amid deluge of complaints
But the Department of Public Health said it found no violations at the historic restaurant during a Tuesday inspection
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Diners at House of Prime Rib in San Francisco on October 30, 2020.Kelsey McClellan / Special to The Chronicle 2020
The House of Prime Rib has an issue with its flagship meat: The iconic San Francisco restaurant admitted on Tuesday that some of its prime rib may be connected to reports of foodborne illness.
House of Prime Rib inspected by SF health department after complaints of foodborne illness
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House of Prime Rib has had multiple complaints about possible foodborne illness.Patricia Chang/Special to SFGATE
Iconic San Francisco restaurant House of Prime Rib shared Tuesday that there had recently been an isolated issue with some of [the restaurant s] prime rib which was immediately discovered and addressed,” it announced on Facebook.
Recently, the restaurant has been hearing from customers who said they became ill after dining there, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another). Some have left negative Yelp reviews detailing their symptoms or posted reports on website iwaspoisoned.com.
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Letter: Where else but nursing homes should those patients have been sent?
to the editor
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FILE. Letter writer says, It seems to me the only obvious place for them to go was back to the nursing homes. Not a good choice, but the only obvious one. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News Service
I’ve been reading Chris Churchill’s columns about the nursing home deaths here in New York state and, while I m not an apologist for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, especially regarding not being truthful about the nursing home deaths, I find I have trouble accepting some other of Churchill s assertions. The one I find most troublesome is his railing about Cuomo’s order that nursing homes accept stable COVID-19 patients from hospitals. Given the situation at the time with hospital rooms at a premium, just where would Churchill have proposed those people be sent? Back home where their families were not capable of handling them? Otherwise, why were they in nursing h