A cook sneezing on hands. Rodent dung. Keys, Miami, Broward, Palm Beach restaurant yuck

Dirty hands, a repulsive buffet, “wild, big birds” and all four South Florida counties are represented in this week’s list of restaurant inspection failures.

Before we dive into the disgusting, let’s remind everyone of guidelines here at the Sick and Shut Down List: What follows comes from Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation restaurant inspections of restaurants in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties. These are the restaurants that fail inspection. A restaurant that fails inspection remains closed until passing a re-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 healthy seasoning of humor (and, probably, indignation and exasperation).

In alphabetical order:

Bowlero Jupiter Lanes, 350 Maplewood Dr., Jupiter: Routine inspection, 11 total violations, two High Priority violations.

No paper towels or hand drying machines were “on any of the handwash sinks.” That’s a lot of damp hands returning from the restroom to grab balls for the next frame.

Stop Sales shot down a dented can of mushrooms and a dented can of tomatoes.

The inspector saw “50 live roaches on and under racks stored on the floor under the three-compartment sink in the kitchen.”

Bowlero passed the next day’s re-inspection.

Buoy One Seafood, 4391 N. Federal Hwy., Oakland Park: Complaint inspection, 11 total violations, five High Priority violations.

The wall behind the dishwashing machine was “soiled with a mold-like substance.”

The paper towel dispenser at the handwashing sink next to the three-compartment sink couldn’t dispense paper towels.

The inspector found five dead roaches, one on a dry storage shelf next to hot sauce and milk, two under a cookline prep sink. Perhaps the 22 live roaches the inspector counted, including 10 on a shelf above a prep sink, poured a little out for the five who couldn’t be there.

Buoy One passed re-inspection two days later.

King’s Super Buffet, 4270 Okeechobee Rd., West Palm Beach: Complaint inspection, 21 total violations, 10 High Priority violations.

The Super Buffet compiled a super high number of High Priority violations and set an unofficial Sick and Shut Down List record with a super number of Stop Sales.

And, as the inspector walked in the door, clearly the food wasn’t confined wasn’t confined to the buffet line.

“Carpet in dining rooms is heavily soiled with food debris and stains. Floors in the kitchen are soiled with grease and food debris.”

Also, in the kitchen, cookline “cutting boards are heavily soiled with black mold like substance.”

The dishwasher’s chlorine sanitation came in at zero parts per million.

In the back, the dumpster was overflowing. A garbage can was in a place that made it a “nuisance or public health hazard.” This filled can by the back screen door was a Super Buffet for the “wild, big birds and flies feeding from the garbage can.”

Inside, two of the 37 flies counted landed on raw chicken in the reach-in cooler. Another 10 flies buzzed the dishwasher area, four of which landed on clean and dirty dishes. Five flies went straight for the good stuff, hitting the hot and cold buffet in the dining room.

The dead roach count reached four.

Plastic tubs of fish weren’t covered in the walk-in freezer. Then again, food safety is a problem at the Super Buffet, which brings us to the Reign of the Stop Sales.

Food that needed to be at 41 degrees or below after several hours cooling to keep from being bacteria battle stations were sliced pork (55 to 62 degrees); lo mein noodles (46 to 47); chicken (59); beef (59); crawfish (59); clams (59); shrimp (49); corn (47); and raw shell eggs (64).

Food in hot holding that needed to be kept at 135 degrees or above were yellow fried rice (126 degrees).

All got hit with Stop Sales.

The King passed inspection the next day.

Labadie Cherie, 9819 S. Military Tr., Boynton Beach: 22 total violations, seven High Priority violations.

According to the DBPR site, the restaurant operating under this license and at this location, but under a new owner will be Kingsburg Asian Cuisine.

As for this place, there was a dead roach on a clean plate at the cookline.

Of the dozen live roaches, two were on a table next to the rice cooker (wonder if anybody got into the rice cooker).

Two flies were on a cookline cutting board, one fly was on a prep table across from the cookline.

Back to the rice cooker, which was “soiled on the outside,” like the flour, sugar, salt and rice containers in dry storage. The outside of the microwave was “encrusted with food debris.”

And there were cook issues:

“The cook didn’t wash hands after being outside handling delivery.”

“The cook drained water out of cooked vegetables with his bare, unwashed hands and plated the vegetables.”

“The cook sneezed into his hands, then engaged in food preparation, without washing his hands.”

Then again, the cookline handwash sink didn’t have any soap and the hot water at the handwash sink next to the cookline didn’t get hot enough.

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Paraiso Tropical Restaurant & Pizzeria, 184 NW 75th Pl., Northwest Miami-Dade: Complaint inspection, 23 total violations, five High Priority violations.

A glass got washed but not sanitized.

“Observed employee coughing, touched his mouth and didn’t change his gloves.”

Above the prep line, the ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents were “soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance.

That probably didn’t bother the nine flies, certainly not the one that landed on top of cooked beef in the kitchen or the two in the dining area.

Stop Sale on the cooked beef and Stop Sale on the crema de queso inside the apparently ineffective walk-in cooler. It measured 46 to 48 degrees after being cooked the day before.

Paraiso passed re-inspection the next day.

Smoked BBQ, 1801 Roosevelt, Key West: Routine inspection, nine total violations, three High Priority violations.

The noodles measured 48 degrees in the reach-in cooler. That needed to be 41 or below for safe keeping. Stop Sale.

A cutting board on a reach-in cooler was “stained.”

But the real problem were the “14 rodent droppings on the floor behind the fryers next to the back door.”

Smoked passed re-inspection the next day.