Old meat sauce, flies on food and ice in restaurants failing inspection
Admittedly, this week’s South Florida restaurant violations on The Sick and Shut Down List don’t match last week’s. That just reminds us that you have to appreciate 80-pound iguanas in pizza place freezers when they come along.
The flies have it this week. So, let’s get to it.
What follows comes from Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation restaurant inspections. If you see a problem with a restaurant and want it inspected, don’t email us. Go to the DBPR website and file a complaint. We don’t control who gets inspected or how strictly. We report without passion or prejudice, but with an egg roll of humor.
In alphabetical order:
Indian Harvest, 500 Via de Palmas, Boca Raton: Whatever you order, you might want to hold the onions.
“Approximately 50 live flies at unpeeled onions in bus pans at the rear hallway dry storage area separate from the kitchen...approximately 10 live flies at drain board at bar in dining room.”
Other than that, Indian Harvest really just learned you can’t throw open your doors and declare yourself open as a restaurant.
“Establishment operating without a license from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants.”
“Manager lacking proof of food manager certification.”
“Proof of required state approved employee training not available for some employees.”
Villagio at Boca, 344 Plaza Real, Boca Raton: Imagine a piano keyboard with one fly on each key. That’s how many flies the inspector saw zipping about Villagio.
And they landed on liquor bottles, on a soda gun, on the wine rack, on table cloths and chairs in the dining room, on the wall over the coffee station, on the wall over silverware, on many places around the house.
Most damaging, enough to draw a Stop Sale, “flies landing on ice. Ice discarded. Ice bin cleaned and sanitized.”
The flies didn’t land on the meat sauce. Maybe even in the fly world, nine-day old meat sauce that hasn’t been frozen isn’t fit for consumption. The meat sauce got hit with a Stop Sale for being too old.
With all these flies around, good thing the dishes and kitchenware were getting a good washing and sanitizing for your protection.
Oof.
The kitchen dishwasher, the bar dishwasher even the sanitizing part of the three-compartment sink measured 0 parts per million on the sanitizing chlorine. The place set up the three-compartment sink for sanitizing.
On Thursday’s first re-inspection, the fly guy count was down to 10, which was still not good enough for government work or inspection.
The second re-inspection got Villagio open for the weekend.
