By Carla Zanoni
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Uptown residents hoping to get their fix of café con leche and pillowy doughnuts at Grullon Bakery will have to wait until the city gives the establishment a clean bill of health.
Grullon Bakery, located at 1493 St. Nicholas Ave. since 2006, was the fourth restaurant ordered shuttered in Inwood and Washington Heights over the past several weeks after failing its April 20 Health Department inspection with 82 violation points.
The bakery was ordered closed for inadequately refrigerating and heating food, evidence of mice and live roaches, improper cleaning supplies and improper food storage.
Owner Ramon Grullon said he was frustrated by the closure, calling it "unfair" in Spanish, but declined to comment further.
Grullon Bakery's closure on Wednesday followed the April 5 closure of Empire Szechuan at 4041 Broadway after it received 97 violation points; the April 8 closure of Kenny's Bakery at 126A Dyckman Street after receiving 52 violation points; and the April 19 closure of John's Fried Chicken at 512 West 207th Street after it was slapped with 82 violation points.
All three restaurants have passed follow-up health department inspections and since reopened.
According to the department spokeswoman Erin Brady, the four establishments were inspected "during routine cyclical sanitary inspections."
"There has been no concerted effort regarding inspections in this area," she wrote in an email statement.
