A roach on sushi rice paper and another IHOP among Miami to Palm Beach inspection fails

Bugs in food, another restaurant from North Miami Beach’s Wretched Restaurant Row and, for the second straight week, an IHOP highlight this week’s Sick and Shut Down List.

So, let’s get to which Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach restaurants failed state inspection. Remember, we don’t choose the restaurants that get inspected nor do we do the inspection. We’re just the judgmental messenger.

In alphabetical order:

Bagels & a Whole Lot More, 10281 W. Sample Rd., Coral Springs: Routine inspection, 10 total violations, four High Priority violations.

Those dark things on the floor? A couple of dead roaches. Those dark things on the storage room window sill and bagel trays? Rodent poop, 12 pieces next to the window and 15 on the bagel trays in the storage room.

The walk-in cooler housing dairy and produce had a gap in the lower right corner.

After washing his hands and putting on gloves, an employee “pulled up his clothing,” then went back to prepping customer orders.

“All cooks with no beard guards.”

The bagels were back after inspection the next day.

Bokamper’s, 3115 NE 32nd Ave., Fort Lauderdale: Complaint inspection, 28 total violations, three High Priority violations.

The ceiling vents in the food prep areas were “soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or a mold-like substance.”

A roach breathed last on the floor. Another did so on a food prep table. Another roach crawled on a sushi prep table. One roach hung out in a storage container with wrapped bamboo rollers. One did so in a storage container with sauce bottles on a sushi prep area table. Same table, still another was inside a container of opened rice paper, which got the rice paper hit with a Stop Sale.

Standing water sat in the bottom of a reach-in cooler on the cookline and and a plate storage cooler next to the cookline.

Instead of thawing frozen raw shrimp in the refrigerator or at least under running cold water, the restaurant left the shrimp in standing water in the three-compartment sink.

Under the dishwasher drain board, there was a “hole in the wall.”

Bo’s was back in the game after re-inspection the next day.

Domino’s Pizza, 12225 SW 112 St., Kendall: Routine inspection, 10 total violations, four High Priority violations.

We told you earlier this week about the Domino’s that got moisturized by a wastewater backup and got hit with a triple shot of Stop Sales on cheese, potato bites and pasta.

READ MORE: One reason a Kendall Domino’s Pizza failed inspection: cheese that had to be trashed

This franchise bounced back to pass re-inspection the next day.

Express Caribbean Restaurant, 1401 S. State Rd. 7, North Lauderdale: Complaint inspection, 15 total violations, two High Priority violations.

This is the same place only three weeks past getting caught with a rodent problem , food on the floor and kitchen shelves with “food debris, mold-like substance or slime.”

This time, they matched the food on the floor with a “bag of carrots and cabbage stored on the kitchen floor,” raised the vermin invitation with “cooked goat not covered in the reach-in cooler” and threw in “raw oxtail at room temperature sitting in an empty prep sink.”

With the easy entry of an exterior door with a gap at the threshold, this drew enough rodents to produce almost three times the 12 pieces of rodent poop on July’s failed inspection.

Employees who washed their hands (or, even just got them wet) after going to the restroom didn’t have a way to dry them.

After passing the callback inspection the next day, the Express was running again.

IHOP, 312 U.S. 1, North Palm Beach: Complaint inspection, seven total violations, four High Priority violations.

This IHOP’s license and inspections can be found under the full name “International House of Pancakes,” which always seemed a little grandiose for a place whose main draw was having both blueberry and strawberry syrup in addition to maple.

“Uncovered food was stored near sink and exposed to splash ... at the cookline, uncovered flavored spreads were stored next to the handwash sink.”

The cooked food and all the customers were exposed to 50 flies “in the dining room, flying around, landing on walls and partitions.”

Stop Sales came down on three eggs with broken shells and commercially processed, reduced oxygen-packed salmon that was thawing. It’s supposed to stay frozen until use.

The dishes on which customers food sat and the utensils they used to shovel them into their mouth (or, for kids, onto their laps and the floor)? They weren’t sanitized. The dishwasher sanitizer measured zero-point-zero parts per million.

This IHOP “Met Inspection Standards” during the next day’s inspection.

La Brasa Grill, 888 S. Military Tr., Unincorporated Palm Beach County: Routine inspection, four total violations, three High Priority violations.

While more than 20 flies swarmed a kitchen garbage can, another 10 buzzed soiled aprons, and four landed on single use cups at the front counter. Handwash sink paper towels got befouled with five flies.

Raw fish wasn’t cooling fast enough to get under 41 degrees in four hours because it was in an “overstocked container. The manager put the fish in containers with smaller portions and moved to quick chill.”

Not given that opportunity after an overnight in the walk-in were garlic sauce, cooked beans and cooked rice. Stop Sale, Stop Sale, Stop Sale, and all tossed.

La Brasa came correct on inspection the next day.

Osman Restaurant, 514 NE 167 St., North Miami Beach: Routine inspection, 36 total violations, seven High Priority violations.

Inspections found under “Osmanas Restaurant” or “Osman’s Restaurant,” but, by any name, it’s still another spot on North Miami Beach’s Wretched Restaurant Row of Filth.

READ MORE: 4 restaurants on this major Miami-Dade street failed inspection in the last 7 months

In addition to the hole on the wall by the mop sink, the “exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.” That’s the kind of problem that leads to the rodent Rose Parade that’s plagued other restaurants on this street.

This place didn’t have rodents — just over 30 flies in dry storage, over 10 under the dishwasher, four on dirty dishest at the dishwasher and two flies “laying on the prep table.”

Dishwasher’s sanitizer? Zero.

Chicken soup spent the night in a reach-in cooler but still measured 49 degrees. Stop Sale.

Standing water in a reach-in cooler, throughout the kitchen and the (no longer) dry storage area.

Cracked lids sat on rice storage containers.

“All cutting board have cut marks and are no longer cleanable.”

Containers and a metal rack blocked employees from getting to the kitchen handwash sink, which didn’t have cold running water, soap or paper towels.

None of the kitchen wiping cloths rested in a sanitation solution between uses, as required.

The storage containers were larger than the three-compartment sink, so staff was “unable to wash, rinse and sanitize them properly.”

Osman passed re-inspection Tuesday with “Follow-Up Inspection Required.”

Quick Bite Thai & Sushi, 470 W. Hillsboro Blvd., Deerfield Beach: Routine inspection, 10 total violations, three High Priority violations.

About 10 live roaches, two of which were in front of a reach-in cooler, and one dead roach quickly put Quick Bite on the road to closure.

“Non food grade paper used in direct contact with food” as in “salmon, tuna, cucumbers, and cut vegetables in direct contact with non food grade paper towels.”

Standing water with in-use utensils must measure at least 135 degrees. The 85 degrees of the water with a cookline spoon beat room temperature, but still measured 50 degrees below snuff.

Quick Bites were being served again after the next day’s callback inspection.

Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill, 809 S. University Dr., Plantation: Routine inspection, four total violations, one High Priority violation.

At Friday’s initial inspection, the inspector counted 90 flies, 40 of which were “landing on the ice scoop, drink syrup bottles and clean drink glasses at the dining room bar.” About 20 used the hanging glass rack over the dining room bar’s service area for rest between flights. Another 10 landed on the actual glasses. The walls around a door connecting the dining room to the kitchen had 20 flies.

During Saturday’s re-inspection, the fly count dropped precipitously, to 11, but that still kept the grill cold.

Smokey Bones was back in action after Monday’s second re-inspection.