A complaint inspection on Oct. 9 at the restaurant inside Miami Shores Country Club recorded 22 violations, including three high-priority violations. The Miami Herald reported that inspectors found more than 20 rodent droppings on the dry-storage floor and on clean dishes, more than 10 in the manager’s office, and five near single-service articles. The restaurant later passed a callback inspection.
The Herald reported that inspectors also found standing water in a walk-in cooler and five thawed, 4-ounce bags of tuna in reduced-oxygen packaging. They placed a stop-sale on all 20 ounces. A dead roach was found in an empty plastic bin. The inspection report’s recorded stop-sale does not, by itself, establish that the tuna caused illness.
What the callback and inspection record show
The restaurant missed Friday dinner service and reopened the following night after passing the callback, according to the Herald. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation says an establishment closed under an emergency order may reopen after an inspection shows that the violations causing the closure have been corrected. That general guidance does not establish which findings, if any, prompted the restaurant to miss service.
A callback addresses the follow-up inspection; it is not a guarantee of conditions over time. DBPR cautions that inspection reports are snapshots of conditions on the inspection date and may not represent an establishment’s overall, long-term conditions, according to its Division of Hotels and Restaurants.
Additional kitchen and handling findings
Other issues reported by the Herald included a lack of equipment to measure utensil surface temperature when hot water is used for dishwashing, a cut-up cutting board that was no longer cleanable, a hole in the wall above the dishwasher, and a leaking kitchen handwash-sink faucet. An employee was also observed preparing food without a beard guard. Florida DBPR lists reduced-oxygen packaging and other special processes among food-service high-priority violation categories; that classification alone does not establish the specific basis for the tuna stop-sale.
