See which Miami-Dade country club’s restaurant had rodent poop on clean dishes

Standing water and dumping rodents put a country club restaurant in timeout after an inspection Friday.

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Miami Shores Country Club missed the Friday dinner rush, but the restaurant at 10000 Biscayne Blvd. with a view of the golf course passed its callback inspection Saturday to get back in business for the Saturday night crowd.

Somebody in a previous crowd left dissatisfied because Friday’s visit from the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation was a complaint inspection. The inspector found 22 violations, three of which were high-priority violations.

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The most eye-catching of the high-priority violations was “approximately 20-plus rodent droppings in the dry storage area on the floor and on top of clean dishes.” There also were five pieces of rodent regularity on the floor near where single-service articles are stored.

Management probably knew there was a rodent problem, as the inspector counted over 10 doo doo dots inside the manager’s office.

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A roach died inside an empty plastic bin.

A cutting board in the back food prep area had “cut marks and is no longer cleanable.”

The restaurant had no way of “measuring utensil surface temperature when using hot water as sanitizer in a dishwasher.”

There was a hole in the wall above the dishwasher.

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A kitchen area handwash sink faucet was leaking water.

Inside the walk-in cooler, standing water covered the floor.

A bearded employee “engaged in food preparation with no beard guard.”

Commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged fish came with a label stating that the fish should stay frozen until cooking time and not removed from the reduced oxygen packaging. Maybe that label was too subtle, maybe it was ignored or maybe staff just didn’t spot it.

But the inspector definitely spotted five 4-ounce bags of tuna in reduced oxygen packaging “completely thawed out inside the walk-in cooler” and dropped Stop Sale orders on all 20 ounces of tuna.

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