POMPANO BEACH, FL. Back in February 2026, state inspectors ordered Bojos Seafood Kitchen on Hammondville Road shut down after finding roach activity inside the restaurant, the third emergency closure at that address since 2019 and the latest chapter in a documented record stretching across 29 inspections and 160 total violations.
The closure was ordered on February 11, 2026. Inspectors gave the restaurant until February 12 to vacate. The facility reopened later that same day, at 8:47 in the morning, after a follow-up inspection cleared it to resume service.
What Inspectors Found
Bojos Seafood Kitchen: Recent Inspection History
The February 11 inspection produced the most serious findings in recent memory at this location. Inspectors documented three high-severity violations and four intermediate violations during that single visit.
That combination, roach activity serious enough to trigger an immediate shutdown alongside a stack of other violations, was enough for the state to order the restaurant vacated before the next business day.
The follow-up inspection on February 12 cleared most of the concerns, but not all of them. One high-severity violation and one intermediate violation were still on record when inspectors signed off and allowed the restaurant to reopen.
What This Means
Roach activity is one of a small number of conditions Florida law treats as grounds for immediate closure, without warning and without a grace period. The reason is direct: cockroaches move freely between sewage, garbage, and food preparation surfaces, carrying pathogens that cause salmonella, E. coli, and other foodborne illnesses. A customer eating at a table has no way to know the kitchen behind the wall has an active roach problem.
The risk is not theoretical. Roaches contaminate food and surfaces through contact and through their droppings, shed skins, and egg casings, all of which can carry bacteria. In a seafood kitchen, where raw proteins are handled and where moisture and warmth create conditions roaches prefer, the hazard is compounded.
The three high-severity violations documented on February 11 are the category the state reserves for findings that pose the most direct risk of making someone sick. The four intermediate violations, while less acute, point to procedural breakdowns that allow conditions like roach infestations to develop and persist.
The fact that one high-severity violation remained on the books even after the overnight corrective effort, and was still present when inspectors cleared the restaurant to reopen, is worth noting.
The Pattern
The February 2026 closure was not the first time roaches shut Bojos Seafood Kitchen down.
In April 2019, inspectors ordered the same restaurant closed for the same reason: roach activity. That closure lasted two days, from April 2 to April 4. The February 2026 closure, also for roach activity, was resolved in less than 24 hours.
Between those two roach-related closures, the restaurant accumulated a third emergency shutdown, bringing the total to three on record across 29 inspections.
The Longer Record
Across 29 inspections on record, Bojos Seafood Kitchen has accumulated 160 total violations. That averages out to more than five violations per inspection visit, though the distribution is uneven. The October 2024 inspection produced zero high-severity or intermediate violations. The February 2026 inspection produced seven.
The pattern of high-severity violations in the most recent inspection history is consistent. Of the six inspections conducted between October 2024 and the February 2026 closure, five of them included at least one high-severity violation. Only one, the October 2024 visit, came back clean.
That is not the record of a facility that had one bad week. It is the record of a facility that has cycled through serious violations, closures, and callbacks repeatedly over years, with clean inspections interspersed but high-severity findings returning each time.
The two most recent inspections, both conducted on April 14, 2026, showed improvement. One came back with zero violations at any severity level. The other showed one high-severity violation and no intermediate violations. Whether that represents a sustained correction or another point in a longer cycle is a question the inspection record alone cannot answer.
What the record does show is that as of the April 14 inspections, Bojos Seafood Kitchen was operating with at least one unresolved high-severity violation on file.