New York’s famous Serendipity 3 restaurant, home of the world’s most expensive dessert (the $25,000 “Frrozen Haute Chocolate”), has been shut down by the New York City Health Department after the restaurant failed two health inspections in a month.

The department says that inspectors found hundreds of live cockroaches, mouse droppings, fly infestations, and an improperly functioning sewage system. Delicious!

Department officials tell CBS 2 that both inspections revealed “rodent and fly infestation and conditions conducive to pest infestation, including stagnant water in the basement.”

The plumbing was reportedly so out of line that the “sewage disposal system [was] in disrepair or not functioning properly.”

On Wednesday night, the store, which has been featured in numerous Hollywood films, apparently kept open its wild zoo of filth for inspectors. The Department says the inspector came upon a live mouse, more than 100 live cockroaches, fruit flies, house flies, and piles of mouse dropping scattered about the restaurant.

Yummy!

Health Dept. Closes Shop Selling $25,000 Sundae [CBS2] (Thanks, Cigar!)
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