VEGGIE reviews

January 22, 2010
Approx. 12pm

My co-workers and I decided to go out for lunch one Friday afternoon. Little did we know that our choice of where to go would haunt us for the next week. Cancun is a small restaurant down at the end of King Street in Hampton before you reach Langley Air Force Base.

We love Mexican food and have gone to Cancun before without a problem. This day, I ordered their vegetarian option that comes with a cheese quesadilla, bean chalupa, and bean burrito. We had a great tasting meal and went home that day ready for the weekend. By 4pm on Saturday, I was feeling queasy and generally sick feeling. Within a couple hours, I got hit with the symptoms of food poisoning. It was not just the stomach issues but also body aches, chills, and fever. I found out that my co-worker was suffering the same thing. We immediately thought it was Cancun since she doesn’t go out to eat much and that was the only place she’d gone out to eat recently.

When we came back to work the next week, we found out that a lot of our other co-workers had fallen ill and had eaten there as well. My co-worker ended up calling the health inspector who then did an investigation and tested some ’samples’ from someone who had gotten sick. They tested positive for Norovirus. Norovirus is sometimes referred as “Stomach flu” and is found in human feces. It’s just utterly disgusting and I will never eat there again.

If you won’t take my word for it, check out their record on the restaurant inspections website: http://www.healthspace.ca/Clients/VDH/Hampton/Hampton_Website.nsf

It shows many repeat CRITICAL and non-critical violations including the following:

Critical Repeat: A food employee failed to wash his or her hands before engaging in food preparation, after touching bare human body parts, after coughing, sneezing, eating, after handling soiled utensils or after engaging in any activity which may have contaminated his/her hands.

Repeat: The cutting board(s) a the prep table and throughout the kitchen are heavily scratched and scored. The food contact surface is no longer easily cleaned and sanitized due to condition.