UPDATE: Dolsot Korean Re-Opens After Second Mandatory Closure

Update, Wednesday, May 1, 5 p.m.: Dol Sot was permitted to re-open by health inspectors after correcting problems found in the April 30 inspection.

Original Story: Dolsot Korean Cuisine in Issaquah was closed again by Public Health - Seattle & King County on Tuesday — about a month after it was closed for food safety violations and two months after it opened at Gilman Village.

The health department says an inspector found the following problems during a visit yesterday:

• Potentially hazardous foods at unsafe temperatures
• Improper cooling of potentially hazardous food
• Inadequate facilities to control temperature of potentially hazardous food, cold holding
• Failure to correct repeated violations

The repeated food closures may drive the new restaurant permanently out of business. Public Health - Seattle & King County can revoke an establishment's permit if it has had its permit suspended three times in a 12 month period.

Last month, health inpectors closed the restaurant due to similar concerns over the potential for food-bourne illness. The concerns in March were:

• Potentially hazardous foods (PHF) at unsafe temperatures
• PHF improperly reheated
• Inadequate facilities to control temperature of PHF
• Poor personal hygiene practices
• Handwashing facilities inaccessible
• Failure to correct repeated violations

Patch will update this post when Dolsot re-opens.

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