Cockroaches close Sacramento Indian restaurant a second time. Which one?
Sacramento County health inspectors closed a localIndian fusion restaurantdue to cockroaches, improperly cooled meat and other food safety issues.
Inspectors also cited a Chinese restaurant in Sacramento for violations ranging from a slimy ice machine to “potentially hazardous foods” at unsafe temperatures.
While a yellow placard signals two or more major violations, these are typically corrected or mitigated during the inspection, according to the Sacramento County Retail Food Inspection Guide.
A red placard, however, signals “imminent danger to public health and safety” and suspends the health permit until violations are corrected.
This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination.
In contrast, a green placard means a restaurant passed inspection.
The county performs about 14,000 inspections annually, with 97% of establishments passing, spokesman Ken Casparis previously told The Sacramento Bee.
Approximately 1% of inspections result in a closure, he said.
The Bee publishes weekly updates on health inspections across Sacramento County.
Here are the results of Sacramento County food facility inspections for Thursday, July 17, through Wednesday, July 23, as of Thursday afternoon.
If an inspection listed below needs clarification, business owners can email The Sacramento Bee at servicejournalists@sacbee.com.
Sacramento restaurant closed due to cockroaches
Darbar Halal Restaurant, 3022 Stockton Blvd., Suite 1, in Sacramento, had four food safety violations during a reinspection on Monday, July 21.
Sacramento County health inspectors originally shut down the Indian-Afghanistan fusion restaurant on Friday, July 18, due to 17 food safety violations ranging from a live cockroach and leaky pipes to mislabled containers and improperly cooled foods.
Inspectors closed Darbar Halal Restaurant a second time after seeing nine “live and active” German cockroach nymphs under the dishwasher and on the preparation sink floor, walls, and chemical bottles.
The restaurant was improperly cooling three containers holding approximately five pounds of goat, 10 pounds of chicken and five pounds of cooked rice. Inspectors measured the meat and rice at unsafe temperatures, making it “unfit for human consumption.”
Employees threw away the foods in garbage bags.
Chicken breast also measured outside of the temperature range considered safe, inspectors said.
The restaurant’s dish machine was not producing enough chlorine. This was later corrected during inspection.
As of Thursday, July 24, Darbar Halal Restaurant had not been reinspected.
The Sacramento Bee reached out to Darbar Halal Restaurant for comment on Thursday, but was unable to reach anyone.
Chinese restaurant cited for dish machine, lack of food safety knowledge
Lucky Dumpling House, 5110 Auburn Blvd. in Sacramento, had 17 health code violations on Wednesday, July 23.
Health inspectors gave the Chinese restaurant a yellow placard after discovering an improperly installed dishwashing machine, a dripping ice machine with “slime residue” inside and other issues.
A drain from a prep sink was nested inside the floor sink. There were several drains on the floor or nearby the floor sink beneath the ice machine.
A glass door cooler inside the kitchen was not in use during the inspection.
Inspectors said the restaurant was missing a probe thermometer, and there was an unsecured fire extinguisher in a dry storage room.
“Potentially hazardous foods” including cooked shrimp, rice, wontons and fried chicken measured outside the temperature range considered safe, and frozen meats were improperly thawing on the drain board of a prep sink.
“Flaking black residue” from a wok was mixed in with fried rice.
Employees did not demonstrate acceptable food safety knowledge about warewashing or the appropriate temperatures for cooking and reheating.
Lucky Dumpling House had yet to be reinspected as of Thursday.
This story was originally published July 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM.