One Broward County restaurant was forced to temporarily close last week after state inspectors found violations such as live insects in a bag of dry macaroni, dead roaches inside an oven, and employees working in the kitchen without hair restraints.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel typically highlights restaurant inspections conducted by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation in Broward and Palm Beach counties. We cull through inspections that happen weekly and spotlight places ordered shut for violations such as improper food temperatures or dead cockroaches.
Any restaurant that fails a state inspection must stay closed until it passes a follow-up. If you spot a possible violation and wish to file a complaint, visit myfloridalicense.com. (But please don’t contact us: The Sun Sentinel doesn’t inspect restaurants.)
BROWARD COUNTY
Patrizia’s
1544 SE Third Court, Deerfield Beach
Ordered shut: Jan. 20
Why: 25 violations (four high-priority), including:
- Four live roaches “on floor at cook line in kitchen.”
- At least 30 dead roaches “inside oven” and “on floor” at cook line in kitchen and “inside clear light shield on ceiling in prep area.”
- About 20 live insects “inside bag of dry macaroni in dry storage” and “crawling on shelf in dry storage area.” A stop sale was ordered for the dry macaroni.
- A stop sale also was ordered because there was “no tag on oysters stored in four-door, reach-in cooler in prep area.”
- “Observed at least four employees working at cook line in kitchen with no hair restraints.”
- “Observed employee drinking from mug at cook line in kitchen.”
- “Observed tray of raw beef stored on shelf above container of cooked meatballs in walk-in cooler.”
- “Ceiling tiles and vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance in kitchen.”
Status: Reopened Jan. 21 after a follow-up inspection found eight basic violations.