Roaches, bad cleaning and a Boston Market’s 118 flies: restaurants failing inspection
This week’s Sick and Shut Down List of restaurants failing inspection features a corporate-owned national chain store for the and three of four South Florida counties represented, each for the second consecutive week.
Restaurants that fail inspection are closed until passing re-inspection.
What follows comes from Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation restaurant inspections. If you see a problem and want a place inspected, don’t email us. Go to the DBPR website and file a complaint.
We don’t control who gets inspected or how strictly. There might be many more violations on the report than we note. We just point out the most egregious and icky. We report without passion or prejudice, but with humor sauce.
In alphabetical order:
Ackees Jamaican Cuisine, 19349 S. Dixie Hwy., Cutler Bay: Whatever roach killing technique Ackees uses works kind of OK, seeing as how the inspector counted only seven live roaches (three by the cookline) and 22 dead ones.
Extermination, average. Washing stuff? Not average. The rest of this place was the Great Unwashed.
Handwashing sinks don’t get used here since the kitchen hand sink was being used for cleaning product storage; hot water was absent from another employee hand sink and there was an “accumulation of food debris/soil residue” on the hand sink next to the service exit door.
Dishes? The dishwasher completely lacked sanitizing chlorine.
Come on, people, Tilex. “Wall soiled with accumulated black debris in dishwashing area.”
Ackees passed re-inspection on Tuesday.
Bento Asian Kitchen + Sushi, 5570 N. Military Tr., Boca Raton: If it feels as if you’ve seen Bento here before, good memory and thank you for being a regular reader. A problem with flies put Bento on this list in January.
Last week, the flies were back and so was Bento in “Bento Flies II, The Sequel — this time, it’s personal.”
Of their 39 flies that the inspector counted Tuesday, five sat “on syrup dispensers behind the front counter in the dining room,” another five were on single use to-go containers on a cookline window (presumably before food got put in those containers” and another two were on a “lid of open soy sauce” in the kitchen storage area separated from the cookline.
These flies claimed territory. When the inspector tried to do Bento a favor and come back for a same-day re-inspection, “10 live flies at bathroom doors in the dining room” helped keep Bento closed.
The Bento box was back open after passing re-re-inspection on Wednesday.
Boston Market, 2451 N. Federal Hwy., Pompano Beach:
Heaven (or some other entity above) knows what dropped out of the “hole in ceiling...above chicken prep area.”
Maybe that’s the entry point for the 118 flies the inspector counted on Friday. They seemed to hang out on walls, which makes you wonder why somebody didn’t take a Miami Herald and start whacking like it was late in “GoodFellas.”
“Ten live flies at the wall behind the self-service soda dispenser station...12 live flies on the wall behind the dry storage rack and the prep table next to the microwaves and ovens in the kitchen...approximately 10 live flies at the hand sink in kitchen, on the wall, paper towel dispenser and soap dispenser.”
As often happens with Friday inspection fails, especially during the pandemic, the inspector did Boston Market the favor of the same day re-inspection that could get the restaurant open for weekend business.
Boston Market passed. Apparently, all the flies left to prep for Friday night out after Gov. DeSantis’ executive order.
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