Roaches on walls, standing water on floors as a Miami Beach restaurant fails inspection
Too many roaches running and too much water standing got a South Beach restaurant closed by inspection last week.
What got Taverna, 719 Lincoln Rd., shut down on Thursday is similar to what got Yardhouse, a half block off Lincoln Road, a night in timeout the previous week.
RULES: What follows comes from Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation restaurant inspections in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe counties. These are the restaurants that fail inspection. A restaurant that fails inspection remains closed until passing an inspection.
We don’t do the inspections. We don’t control who gets inspected. We don’t control how strictly the inspector inspects. If restaurants in your part of South Florida are not included, we have nothing to do with that. If you see a problem and want a place inspected, contact the DBPR.
We don’t include all violations, just the most moving, whether internally or literally moving (because it’s alive or once was alive). Some violations get corrected immediately after the inspector points them out. But in those situations, ask yourself, why did the violations exist in the first place? And, how long would they have remained if not for the inspection?
We report without passion or prejudice, but with a takeout carton of humor (and, possibly, indignation and exasperation).
Here are some details from the inspection of the lone Miami-Dade restaurant to fail a Department of Business and Professional Regulation once-over last week:
Taverna, 719 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach: Complaint inspection, 17 total violations, one High Priority violation.
The kitchen prep counter cutting board “has cut marks and is no longer cleanable.”
The doors on neither the men’s nor women’s restroom were self-closing. That’s an area where you want as little hand action as possible.
“Floor tiles missing and/or in disrepair located throughout the kitchen area,” and that mattered because there was “standing water on the floor inside the walk-in cooler and on the kitchen floor due to floor tiles in disrepair.”
Between dips, the ice scoop sat on a “soiled surface” atop the kitchen ice machine
The handwashing sink across from the kitchen dishwasher had running water, but no way to dry your hands after washing them and no soap with which to wash your hands.
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But, we know you came to hear about the roaches.
Well, two crawled “from behind the aluminum wall panel/covering, near the kitchen warewashing area.” Another two were on the wall of a hall leading to the restrooms. Four were “crawling on the floor and under the kitchen prep cooolers near the cookline.” About five were on a wall behind the kitchen dish machine. Over 12 were “between cracks of the chemical dispensing system on top of the kitchen dish machine.”
Taverna passed re-inspection on Friday.
