Roaches stuck on clean cookware. PETA. South Florida restaurant issues

Roaches, rodents — dead and alive —and an appearance by PETA are all in this week’s edition of The Sick and Shut Down List, South Florida restaurants that failed state inspection.

And, this week bringsall manner of food, from donuts to pizza, national chains, local chains, and independents from Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties.

To repeat for those who are new here or always skip this part: this list is entirely reactive. We don’t do the inspections. That’s done by inspectors from the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation. We don’t choose who gets inspected. That’s the DBPR for routine inspections and customers for complaint inspections. File a complaint at the DBPR website.

Restaurants remain closed until they pass a re-inspection. That first re-inspection is usually the next day. We will note if a restaurant fails multiple inspections.

In alphabetical order…

Andreas Cafeteria & Coffee Shop, 16679 NE 19th Ave., North Miami Beach

Routine inspection, 11 total violations, four High Priority violations

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

And, in sashayed the rodents that dropped over 20 poop pellets “on the floor at the front counter behind the handwash sink.”

A dead roach lay on the floor by the kitchen bathroom entrance.

The kitchen hallway floor? “Soiled.” The floor around the hot water heater and bathroom? “Soiled.” The front counter floor behind handwash sinks? “Heavily soiled.”

A raw shell egg measured 52 degrees after an overnight in the walk-in cooler. That needed to be 41 or under for safe serving. Stop Sale on the egg.

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Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, 851 S. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton

Complaint inspection, nine total violations, six High Priority violations

Six dead roaches lay “behind the bar, on the floor and under equipment.” About three live roaches skedaddled “behind the bar, under the bar top.”

About 10 flies were on a wall next to the pizza-making station in the dining room. Eight hung out on the wall behind the bar while three flew around the kitchen food prep area. A low-flying quartet buzzed the drain under the three-compartment sink behind the bar.

An employee walked in through a customer entrance, “picked up plated food and delivered it to customers without washing hands.”

Atlantic Sushi Asian Bistro, 14812 S. Military Tr., Delray Beach

Complaint inspection, 18 total violations, two High Priority violations

Is it a Sick and Shut Down List without at least one appearance of “accumulation of a black mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine”?

Inside two toaster ovens, the inspector found an “accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris at sushi entrance.”

This place might as well have been Caballero Rivero Para Cucarachas, what with 15 roach corpses inside a cookline wok; five more “stuck to cutting boards at the clean utensil storage rack;” 30 roach corpses on the cookline floor and under equipment; 20 on two glue board monitors inside a cookline oven; and about 25 on glue boards at the sushi counter floor.

“One dead roach floating in a water bucket at the cookline.”

As for the living roaches, about 25 were inside that apparently crowded cookline wok. Five were in a cookline oven. Two were on the warewash area floor. One live roach on a warewash area cutting board, possibly the same one with five dead roaches stuck to it.

They’ll be getting new cutting boards anyway after the inspector saw “black staining on five cutting boards stored at cleaned utensil rack in warewash area.” The manager did toss those.

The “floor is soiled/has accumulation of debris underneath the cookline equipment.”

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Bud’s Chicken & Seafood, 2579 Northlake Blvd., North Palm Beach

Complaint inspection, two total violations, one High Priority violation

Of the seven living roaches spotted, one peeked out from under a prep table. Another was spotted “coming out of the wall behind the steam table.”

“Floor tiles throughout kitchen area are missing grout with debris and water standing between the tiles.” Good grout is underrated for proper kitchen cleanliness.

The inspector did this Bud’s a solid and gave a same-day re-inspection that the restaurant passed.

Carmine’s La Trattoria, 2401 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens

Complaint inspection, eight total violations, two high Priority violations.

“Multiple reach-in cooler door handles and gaskets are soiled with a buildup of residues.”

Three dead roaches were spotted, one on the floor under a dish storage rack. Two living roaches were “crawling out of the wall next to the handwash sink” apparently to join the two roaches walking on the counter next to the handwash sink.

The dishwasher was washing with no sanitizer. That’s a no-no. The manager added chlorine sanitizer and got the sanitizer count from zero parts per million to 50 parts per million.

Another place that had missing tile grout in the kitchen, allowing “standing water and debris.”

Casting Caribbean Resto, 209 SE Second Ave., Delray Beach

Routine inspection, eight total violations, five High Priority violations

No getting around calling this place a “hole-in-the-wall” restaurant after the inspector spotted “a hole in or other damage to wall.” Where? “Throughout the establishment.”

Also throughout the establishment, “rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found.”

There were 15 droppings “on top of a bean storage container at dry storage.” They really marked their territory in dry storage, as 11 droppings were under a shelf of dry food and one was on top of a salt box. Three were under a prep table near the dishwashing area, where there were under four around the nearby reach-in cooler. Four droppings between the wall and shelf in the kitchen.

They got a little happy with the sanitizer for manual warewashing — the third part, following wash and rinse in the three-compartment sink — with the sanitizer measuring more than 200 parts per million. The manager diluted it down to 100 ppm.

Containers of cooked pork fixed the previous day measured 76 degrees and 64 degrees despite being in a reach-in cooler that should keep them at or under 41 degrees. The inspector slapped a Stop Sale on each. “Operator burned discarded food.”

An employee used a cell phone, then “touched dirty surfaces, and handled cleaned container to serve food to customers without changing gloves and washing hands.”

CMX Brickell Stone Sports Bar, in Brickell City Centre, 701 S. Miami Ave., Miami

Complaint inspection, 30 total violations, eight High Priority violations

Tuesday, there was a “live rodent on a glue trap inside the cabinet in upstairs bar.” PETA’s not going to like that (see Dunkin’ below).

The inspector also “observed approximately 100-plus dead flies in an old bar area near the kitchen on the floor.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water…on the cookline due to floor tiles.”

“Food stored on the floor.” Didn’t say what food or which floor, but hope whatever it is isn’t wading in the standing water on the cookline.

The upstairs dishwasher was “not working at all.”

“Equipment and utensils were not properly air-dried — wet nesting.”

In restaurant world, you don’t put unwashed produce with ready-to-eat food and the inspector caught “unwashed peppers stored over washed tomatoes inside the walk-in cooler.”

“Soiled knife magnets.”

Dunkin’ Donuts, 1190 NW 62nd St., Miami

Routine inspection, six total violations, zero High Priority violations

We told you earlier this week about the problems at this Liberty City Dunkin’, including holes in the walls and ceiling near the drive-thru.

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After the inspector finished with this Dunkin’ franchise, owned by Sugar Land, Texas’ HZ Coffee Group, PETA came in with an email to Dunkin’ President Scott Murphy on behalf of humane rodent treatment.

“While we certainly understand the need to keep donut-loving rodents out of the restaurant, glue traps are among the cruelest devices on the market,” PETA President Tracy Reiman wrote. “They’re ineffective, pose risks to human health, and are a whole lot worse than other wildlife control methods. We urge you to prohibit their use.

“Mice and rats are social, empathetic animals who become deeply attached to each other, love their families, and easily bond with their human guardians,” Reiman continued. “When these sensitive animals get caught on glue traps they are forced to suffer for hours, often for days, before slowly dying from dehydration, starvation, suffocation, or blood loss. In their desperate attempts to escape, they tear off their own skin, break bones, and sometimes even chew off their own limbs.”

Bet you didn’t know that the CDC advises against the use of glue traps to snag rodents.

“Do not use glue traps and live traps,” the CDC said. “These traps can scare the rodents, causing them to urinate, which can increase your chance of getting sick.”

Excell Restaurant, 1041 S. Congress Ave., Delray Beach

Routine inspection, 11 total violations, six High Priority violations

When it came to the roaches, you had the dead (five corpses in a front line cabinet); the living (three in that front line cabinet, one on a kitchen wall); and those in transition (”Employee killed five live roaches underneath an unused glass door hot box at the front line.”).

An employee served plantains, a ready-to-eat item, with bare hands. Then, that same person “went outside, came back inside, then without changing gloves or washing hands.”

Cooked veggies with meat had enough time for the reach-in cooler to drop the temperature to 41 degrees. Alas, it measured 52 degrees. Stop Sale.

Golden Corral, 10100 Fox Trail Rd. S, Royal Palm Beach

Complaint inspection, four total violations, three High Priority violations

A kitchen bug zapper over soda boxes still counts as an “insect control device installed over a food preparation area.

Evading the zapper were the eight flies in the salad prep area, four in the dessert area and three on the wall near the serving utensils at the hot buffet.

The dessert bar’s ice cream mix measured 47 degrees in cold storage. That’s not cold enough. Stop Sale.

Miami Grill aka Miami Subs, 210 SW 40th Ave., Plantation

Complaint inspection, three total violations, one High Priority violation

The “outer openings are not protected during operation and vermin and/or environmental cross contamination are present.” That’s the violation you get when you have a broken cove molding on a door to the outside and you have live roaches inside.

Such as the six roaches “crawling on the ground near the handwashing sink and walk in cooler” and the two strolling on the floor by the three-compartment sink.

The floor was “soiled with an accumulation of debris between large pieces of equipment in the kitchen.”

Riviera Coffee Shop, 3100 A Flagler Ave., Key West

Routine inspection, 10 total violations, one High Priority violation

One problem, myriad violations.

The problem: the kitchen area handwash sink had fallen off the wall. And, handwashing is supposed to be confined to the handwash sinks.

“No handwash sink for employees.” Because the kitchen handwash sink had fallen off the wall and there was “no other handwashing sink available while open and operating.”

Employees were “handling food and preparing food while establishment has no handwash sink.” There was “no way to properly wash hands while open and operating” because the kitchen hand sink fallen off the wall.

There wasn’t water of at least 85 degrees at the employee handwash sink. Because the kitchen handwash sink fallen off wall.

The “handwash sink does not provide water through a mixing valve or a combination faucet.” Because you know why….

Two Drunken Goats, 2509 N. Ocean Ave., Riviera Beach

Complaint inspection, 12 total violations, three High Priority violations

“At the cookline, approximately one large dead beetle on top of the heat rack.”

The four sticky glue traps did their job, but you don’t leave traps with 300 dead flies, an average of 75 per trap, “hanging above the prep line floor.”

The manager was “using an electric fly swatter to kill flies, but the device is not designed to retain the insect within the device.

Flies eluding the glue traps and the manager’s fancy fly swatter gathered on the cutting board (three), on a clean fying pan (one), on the trash can (three), and on the mop head and a wall (six).

In the women’s restroom, a roach died in the sink. Another two passed on near a front counter t-shirt case.

The men’s bathroom lacked roaches, but not “an objectionable odor.”

At the cookline, the inspector noticed a “heavy accumulation of food and grease splatter on wall and that it was “heavily soiled with accumulation of food and grease debris.”

In the kitchen, “multiple ceiling tiles have an accumulation of dust and debris.”

An employee “moved a trash can with hand and, without washing hands, began to mix ingredients into cole slaw.” Don’t take that coleslaw to the cookout.

No soap at the handwash sink near the cookline entrance.

This story was originally published July 17, 2026 at 10:49 AM.