Rodent dung, roach excrement at another place on Miami-Dade’s Wretched Restaurant Row

David J. Neal
·1 min read

Miami-Dade’s Wretched Restaurant Row got a seventh member last week when state inspectors stopped by a Cajun seafood-Hong Kong BBQ fusion restaurant inside a grocery store.

Land N Sea sits inside strip mall market iFresh Market at 551 NE 167th St. Since December 2023, six other restaurants on or near the North Miami Beach’s main east-west corridor have been closed by usually spectacular inspection failures featuring rodents, roaches and rampant filth.

The Nov. 19 routine inspection of Land N Sea kept continued that trend with 19 total violations, seven of which were High Priority violations.

Here are a few violations.

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There were more than 15 rodent droppings by a storage rack in the ware washing area and three in a front counter cabinet.

Only three live roaches were seen under the three-compartment sink were seen, but the inspector found more than 15 roach droppings under there, over 10 behind a reach-in cooler and five pieces of roach excrement on top of a prep table.

Two flies flitted about the ware washing area and were “landing on packaged foods.”

Observed approximately 2 live flies flying in the ware washing area and landing on package foods.

Fan covers were covered by “accumulated dust.”

Shrimp were being thawed in standing water instead of a cooler or refrigerator, as proper food safety demands.

Stop Sales hit pork ribs (98 degrees), roasted duck (102 degrees) and chicken (104 degrees) which needed to be at 135 degrees in the front counter hot holding unit.

“Observed food container lids soiled by food debris.”

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