A pair of neighbouring Montreal restaurants that function aspect by aspect have amassed $6,900 in well being inspection fines over the previous eight months, following three well being violations associated to meals temperature, pests, and cleanliness.
Restaurant Pizzelli Coq and Solymar sit subsequent door to one another on Saint-Hubert Avenue in Villeray and seem like operated collectively below the identical firm.
Pizzelli Coq makes a speciality of pizza and Italian-Peruvian dishes, whereas Solymar focuses on Peruvian delicacies, seafood, ceviches, and rotisserie rooster. Collectively, they have been a fixture on the road for many years.
Based on Quebec’s Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ), the earliest fantastic, revealed in August 2025, stemmed from a September 2024 inspection and got here in at $1,000. That violation discovered that perishable meals gadgets weren’t being saved at or under 4°C as required, a primary meals security normal meant to stop spoilage and bacterial development.
A second fantastic from that very same September 2024 inspection was revealed in January 2026, this time for $2,700, after inspectors discovered the premises weren’t freed from contaminants, pests, bugs, rodents, or their excrement.
The newest fantastic, revealed on March 19, 2026, was the most important of the three at $3,200. It stems from a Could 2025 inspection and covers the identical pest and contamination violation.
MAPAQ fines are issued by the Montreal Municipal Courtroom and revealed within the provincial meals security registry. The violations listed don’t essentially replicate present circumstances on the institution. In lots of circumstances, a number of months and even years can cross between the date of the infraction and the official publication of the judgment, because the authorized course of runs its course.