Cooper City Peruvian restaurant ordered temporarily shut twice in two months

In a rarity for restaurant inspections, just one South Florida establishment in the entire tricounty area was ordered to temporarily shut its doors last week.

At Pollos & Parrilla by Sr. Ceviche in Cooper City, state inspectors found filthy kitchen equipment and cockroaches crawling near the kitchen prep table.

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 on our state inspection map, updated weekly (usually Mondays) with fresh data pulled from the Florida DBPR website.

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

Pollos & Parrilla by Sr. Ceviche, Cooper City 9419 Sheridan St. Ordered shut:

May 11; reopened May 12 Why: The state discovered 21 violations (five high-priority), such as three live cockroaches seen “crawling on wall behind grill” and “crawling on floor under prep table” in the kitchen’s cook line. The restaurant’s operator later killed the roaches, removed another dead roach in the same space beneath the prep table, and sanitized the area afterward. The state spotted one employee picking “up lids from floor and proceeded to work with cooked foods” without washing hands or changing gloves. They also noticed various equipment that were either filthy or in disrepair, including a “chest freezer door falling off when opened” in the kitchen, a microwave with an “accumulation [of ] food debris,” and “hood filters soiled with grease.” Despite one basic issue discovered during the inspectors’ second visit on May 12, the Peruvian restaurant was cleared to reopen. This is the second time Pollos & Parrilla has been ordered shut in two months.