MIAMI, FL. State inspectors ordered Club De La Milanesa at 3250 NE 1 Ave closed on May 12 after finding rodent activity inside the restaurant, the third time in the facility's documented history that inspectors have pulled its license to operate.
The closure order required the restaurant to vacate by May 13. Records show it had reopened by 10:37 a.m. that same day, after a follow-up inspection found one remaining high-severity violation.
What Inspectors Found
Club De La Milanesa: Recent Inspection Pattern
The May 12 inspection that triggered the closure produced five high-severity violations and two intermediate violations. Rodent activity was the finding that prompted inspectors to order the restaurant shut.
The follow-up visit the next morning found one high-severity violation still on the books: no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods. That violation remained even as the restaurant was cleared to reopen.
What These Violations Mean
Rodent activity inside a food service establishment is treated as an immediate public health emergency under Florida law, and the closure order here reflects that. Rodents contaminate food surfaces, equipment, and stored ingredients with urine, droppings, and pathogens including salmonella. Unlike a temperature violation that can be corrected by adjusting a cooler, rodent activity points to a structural problem, a way in and a reason to stay, that is not fixed by a single overnight cleaning.
The one violation that persisted into the reopening inspection is a separate category of concern. A consumer advisory is required any time a menu offers raw or undercooked animal products, sushi, rare beef, runny eggs, and similar items. Without that notice, customers who are pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, or feeding young children have no way to make an informed choice about what they are ordering. They cannot weigh a risk they do not know exists.
The combination of the two, active pest activity on the day of closure and a missing consumer advisory still present the morning after, describes a facility managing immediate crises while leaving baseline compliance items unaddressed.
The Longer Record
This closure did not arrive without warning. State records show 26 inspections on file for Club De La Milanesa and 206 total violations documented across the facility's history.
The restaurant was emergency-closed once before the May shutdown. On February 25 of this year, inspectors found roach and fly activity and cited eight high-severity violations alongside six intermediate ones. The facility cleared a follow-up inspection the next day, February 26, though two high-severity violations were still present at that reinspection. The May closure came less than three months later.
Before the February closure, the March 2025 inspection produced eleven high-severity violations and five intermediate ones, the heaviest single-inspection count in the recent record. August 2025 added six more high-severity citations. The only clean inspection in this stretch was December 2024, when inspectors found zero high-severity or intermediate violations.
The pattern across these inspections is not one of isolated incidents. Pest-related violations triggered two of the three emergency closures. The facility has been cited for high-severity violations in six of the seven most recent inspections, with the sole exception being December 2024. That one passing inspection sits between two stretches of serious findings, including two emergency shutdowns within three months of each other in early 2026.
Two prior emergency closures, 206 total violations, and 26 inspections on record place Club De La Milanesa among the more frequently cited permanent food service facilities in Miami-Dade. The May 12 closure is the most recent chapter in that record, not the first.
The restaurant had reopened as of the morning of May 13. The single high-severity violation noted at that follow-up inspection, the missing consumer advisory for raw and undercooked foods, was still on file at the time of that visit.