3 restaurants closed for health violations

Flies land on chocolate doughnuts, roaches crawling under wok station

A trio of South Florida restaurants were ordered shut by state inspectors last week, with issues including flies landing on chocolate doughnuts, cockroaches crawling under a wok station and poor sanitation practices.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel typically highlights restaurant inspections in Broward and Palm Beach counties from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. We cull through hundreds of restaurant and bar inspections that happen weekly and spotlight places ordered shut for “high-priority violations,” such as improper food temperatures or dead cockroaches.

Sun Sentinel readers can browse full Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade county reports through our state inspection map, updated weekly (usually Mondays) with fresh data pulled from the Florida DBPR website.

Any restaurant that fails a state inspection must stay closed until it passes a follow-up. If you spotted a possible violation and wish to file a complaint, contact Florida DBPR here. (But please don’t contact us: The Sun Sentinel doesn’t inspect restaurants.)

Dunkin’, Miramar

6190 Miramar Parkway

Ordered shut: Dec. 8; reopened Dec. 8

Why: Six violations (four high-priority), led by 16 live flies, four of which landed directly “on trays of chocolate doughnuts.” Flies were also seen “around the mop sink by exit door away from the kitchen” and on an empty rack in the same area.

The restaurant was dinged after one employee “proceeded to [handle] cooked hash browns for an order without removing gloves or washing hands.” The restaurant was ordered to stop selling and toss 24 doughnuts and the “serving of hash browns.” During the inspection, the operator sanitized trays and other areas that the flies touched.

The chain reopened the same day after a second inspection revealed zero new issues.