Roaches in a box of flour mix and other South Florida restaurant issues

Rodents at a familiar restaurant and roaches in a flour bag lowlight the return of the Sick and Shut Down List, South Florida restaurants closed by failing state inspection.

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To remind you: This list covers Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties. We don’t do the inspecting or choose who gets inspected. The inspections are done by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation. The inspections are done on a rotation or by complaint by customers, who can file those complaints on the agency website.

Restaurants that fail inspection reopen after passing a callback inspection, also called a re-inspection. Some violations are corrected immediately, but are noted here. They existed when the inspector got there.

In alphabetical order:

Belle Cuisine Caribbean Restaurant, 1952 NW Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale

Routine inspection, 16 total violations, one high priority violation

“Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.”

Guess who’s probably walking in the door and nobody’s ringing the bell? The furry friends that left “approximately 30 rodent droppings on top of the reach-in cooler … 12 rodent droppings inside the reach-in cooler next to the steam table.”

In the reach-in cooler, which is “used for long term storage,” containers of cooked chicken, pork and turkey weren’t covered.

The inspector also saw an “accumulation of old food residue buildup on walls throughout kitchen.”

The kitchen handwash sink had running water, but didn’t have soap or paper towels.

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Cafe de Artistes, 318 U.S. 1, Jupiter

Complaint investigation, five total violations, three high priority violations

All about the roaches here.

The dead: Four under a cookline trash can; two under the dishwasher; two corpses on the floor between flip-top coolers.

The living: Six were in a cookline handwash sink soap dispenser. Another roach stood alone on a paper towel dispenser. One stood on a clean plate on a storage rack. A quintet hung out around a cookline trash can.

The regular: Approximately 1 roach excrement on top of paper towel dispenser. Approximately 3 roach excrement droppings inside of soap dispenser.

Elvis Italian Grille, 4261 Griffin Rd., Dania Beach

Complaint inspection, 18 total violations, five high priority violations

“Accumulation of black, mold-like substance in the interior of the ice bin.”

Roaches died on the bar floor (three), at the warewashing station (five), on the floor by the kitchen dishwasher (one), on the floor under a bag in the box soda area and under the three-compartment sink (two each).

The living roaches were in groups of five by the cookline; two by the stove; two by the reach-in coolers and one behind the kitchen ice machine.

About 10 flies were at the bar area.

Neither the bar nor the cookline handwash sinks had any way to dry hands, although the cookline problem was caused by a broken paper towel dispenser.

Standing water covered the floor inside the walk-in cooler and the kitchen area just outside the walk-in cooler.

“The interior of the microwave has an accumulation of food debris.”

The bar area’s espresso machine had a “build up of milk residue,” a sign that it wasn’t properly cleaned or sanitized.

A cutting board on the warewashing station storage rack had cut marks and is no longer cleanable.

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Monfongo Candela, 3095 S. Military Trail, unincorporated Palm Beach County

Routine inspection, six total violations, four high priority violations

Five roaches met their end under the prep table and a kitchen refrigerator. Four died behind the fryer and eight behind a bar cooler.

Two surviving roaches ran under the kitchen steam table.

At the cookline handwash sink: “No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided.”

Sichuan Fish Restaurant, 1242 NE 163rd St., North Miami Beach

Routine inspection, 23 total violations, three high priority violations

As detailed earlier this week, the latest inspection at this rodent resort with food service produced the expected result — fail, close, fail the callback inspection, stay closed, just pass the second re-inspection.

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This used to be CY Chinese restaurant, which failed inspections with alarming frequency.

Yến, 7364 Lake Worth Rd., unincorporated Palm Beach County

Complaint inspection, 34 total violations, 15 high priority violations

The inspector saw four dead roaches, two of which were “on a table behind a table top reach-in cooler.”

That’s not counting the “15 small dead insects” spotted in a pest control device that did its job and needed to be tossed.

What also needed to be tossed was an open box of flour mix on a table, hit with a Stop Sale after the inspector spotted “seven live roaches crawling” out of the box.

Elsewhere, eight live roaches sat on a table behind a tabletop flip-top cooler. Six were “coming out from behind the table and wall behind another flip top cooler.

Behind the tabletop flip-top cooler sat two roach droppings.

In the air, 23 flies were “landing on dirty dishes and the wall next to the three-compartment sink.” Another 11 enjoyed the chemical storage rack. One was landing on the shelf in dry storage.

An “employee entered the kitchen from the customer dining room and, without washing hands, handled cleaned and sanitized dishes.”

Another worker “removed her hat and fixed her hair,” but didn’t wash her hands before going back to cutting vegetables.

The cutting board at the front counter’s flip top cooler was “heavily grooved and no longer cleanable.”

“Standing water” covered the floor under the three-compartment sink.

“Walls were splattered with food and soiled residues at the dishwashing area.”

An “accumulation of food debris” created a mess under cookline reach-in coolers and the inside of the front counter toaster oven.

The “evaporator fan cover in the walk-in cooler was soiled with an accumulation of dust debris.”

Cooked rice noodles didn’t get cooled properly, and got hit with a Stop Sale.

An “employee bed set up” in the kitchen dry storage area.

Wednesday’s re-inspection got ruined by four live roaches, one of which was spotted on the dining area floor and another on a cookline shelf with clean plates. Also, three flies were in the kitchen.

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The restaurant passed the second callback inspection later Wednesday.