A Miami restaurant’s kitchen had a dead rodent. Live rodents gnawed into bags of rice
Rodents lived, munched and died in the kitchen of a popular Little Havana restaurant, a state inspector found during a drop-in and once-over.
The failed inspection closed El Rincon Asturiano for the rest of Thursday. Management didn’t want to speak a Miami Herald reporter about the inspection Monday afternoon.
The full Sick and Shut Down List of Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach restaurants that failed will post later this week. Here’s what the inspector had to say about El Rinson Asturiano.
El Rincon Asturiano, 215 SW 17th Ave., Miami: Complaint inspection, 15 total violations, three High Priority violations.
Just follow along and you’ll end at the rodent corpse.
Let’s start with “hole in or other damage to wall in the prep area by the bottom shelf of the prep table.”
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The dead roach on the floor near a prep table wasn’t a good look. But much more concerning were the “two bags of rice with gnawed corners on the bottom shelf of a prep table.” The inspector dropped Stop Sales on the bags of rice.
Then there were “objectionable odors in the main kitchen area near the A/C unit.”
Also near the air conditioning unit, the inspector spotted over eight rodent droppings on the kitchen floor under a shelf with seasonings.
And under that shelf with seasonings is where the inspector saw “a dead rodent on the floor in the main kitchen.”
Asturiano passed re-inspection Friday to get back open in time for the weekend eating-out traffic.
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This story was originally published November 6, 2023 at 11:31 AM.
