Provincial health inspectors temporarily closed an Italian restaurant earlier this month that has been a fixture in River Heights for more than four decades.

Manitoba Health shuttered Mona Lisa Restaurant at 1697 Corydon Ave., on Sept. 11 for failing to take effective measures against the entry and presence of rodents and failing to ensure the establishment was in good repair and kept clean.

It was allowed to reopen four days later following another inspection.

Joe Grande, who has owned the restaurant for 42 years, said he has always had a robust level of pest control that has now been upgraded further.

“We have one of the best pest-control companies in the province working with us,” Grande said Wednesday.

“We’re doing everything that is recommended and everything we’ve been asked to

See Full Page