FLORIDA. Inspectors closed 20 restaurants across Florida during the week of October 7, 2026, and 18 of those shutdowns traced back to a single category: pest activity, roaches, rodents, flies, or some combination of all three found inside kitchens, bars, and dining rooms from Jacksonville to Naples.
The pace was relentless. Fourteen of the closures happened on a single Tuesday, October 7, touching restaurants in Lakeland, Orlando, Jacksonville, Temple Terrace, Crystal River, Apollo Beach, Lake Mary, Palm Beach Shores, Naples, Daytona Beach, and Poinciana. By the end of the week, no region of the state had been spared.
The Closures
The most alarming single closure of the week came out of a small North Florida city. Call Street Café at 111 Call St. in Starke was shut down for roach activity, rodent activity, and fly activity simultaneously, the only restaurant among the 20 closures to draw all three pest categories at once. Inspectors ordered it closed on October 9. It was back open by 8:10 a.m., a turnaround that suggests crews worked through the night.
Miami Shores Golf Club at 10000 Biscayne Blvd was closed October 9 for roach and rodent activity and reopened the same morning at 9:13 a.m. A golf club kitchen serving members and guests, it was one of two country club or recreational facility kitchens shuttered this week.
Stonegate Golf Club, The Grill at Stonegate, at 404 Village Dr. in Poinciana, was the other. Inspectors closed it October 7 for fly activity. It reopened at 9:42 a.m., less than two hours after the closure order.
China Spring III at 8100 Wiles Rd. in Coral Springs was closed October 8 for roach and rodent activity and cleared to reopen the following morning at 9:50 a.m.
Baci Beachside at 218A Hwy A1A in Satellite Beach was ordered closed October 8 for rodent and fly activity. Inspectors cleared it at 10:19 a.m. the next morning.
Tribute to Tobacco Road by Kush at 650 S Miami Ave. in Miami was shut down October 8 for roach and fly activity. It was back open by 8:53 a.m. the following morning.
No. 1 Jin Jin Kitchen at 1239 Ariana St. in Lakeland was closed October 8 for roach activity alone and did not clear inspection until 12:37 p.m. the next day, one of the longer turnarounds among the week's closures.
October 7 produced a cascade of orders across the state. World Tennis Club at 4802 Airport Rd. in Naples was closed for rodent activity and reopened at 10:16 a.m.
Winghouse Bar and Grill at 250 N Atlantic Ave. in Daytona Beach was closed for roach activity and did not reopen until 3:41 p.m., making it one of the last to clear on that day.
Buccaneer Restaurant at 142 Lake Dr. in Palm Beach Shores was ordered shut for fly activity and reopened just before 10 a.m.
Nawabi Hyderabad House Biryani Place at 4225 W Lake Mary Blvd. was closed for rodent and fly activity and cleared at 9:15 a.m.
Asian Fusion Buffet at 117 Harbor Village Ln. in Apollo Beach was shut for roach and fly activity and reopened at 9:56 a.m.
Thai Cuisine and Noodle House at 11701 San Jose Blvd. in Jacksonville was closed for roach and rodent activity and cleared by 9:54 a.m.
Gaspar Patio Bar and Grille at 8448 N 56 St. in Temple Terrace was ordered closed for rodent activity and did not reopen until 2:47 p.m.
Copp Winery and Brewery at 7855 W Gulf to Lake Hwy. in Crystal River was shut for rodent activity and cleared at 3:25 p.m., the latest reopening among the October 7 closures.
Amar Orlando at 8001 S Orange Blossom Trl in Orlando was closed for roach activity and reopened at 12:47 p.m.
Northside Asian Kitchen at 6737 US Hwy 98 N in Lakeland was also closed October 7 for roach activity and did not clear until 2:39 p.m. China One at 15711 Sheridan St. in Davie was shut the same day for roach activity. No URL was on file for either location.
The Outliers
Two closures this week had nothing to do with pests. NY Best Pizza at 241 S Westmonte Dr. in Altamonte Springs was ordered shut October 7 for sewage leaks and cleared inspection by 11:44 a.m. A sewage leak inside a food preparation environment represents direct contamination risk, not just a maintenance problem.
The Marketplace at 8849 Vistana Dr. in Orlando was closed the same week for unlicensed activity, meaning the operation was running a food service without a valid state license in place. It was the only closure in the dataset not tied to either pest activity or a physical facility failure. It cleared at 4:04 p.m.
What These Violations Mean
Roach activity is not a cosmetic problem. Live roaches move between sewage, garbage, and food prep surfaces, depositing bacteria including Salmonella and E. coli on anything they cross. When inspectors document roach activity as a closure-triggering violation, as they did at 14 of this week's 20 restaurants, it means the infestation reached a threshold where continued operation posed an immediate public health hazard.
Rodent activity carries a separate and compounding risk. Rodent droppings and urine contaminate surfaces and food contact areas with pathogens including Leptospira and Hantavirus. Several of this week's closures involved both rodents and roaches in the same kitchen, including Call Street Café in Starke, China Spring III in Coral Springs, and Thai Cuisine and Noodle House in Jacksonville. In those environments, inspectors are documenting not one contamination pathway but two operating simultaneously.
Fly activity, documented at eight of this week's closures, is frequently treated as a lesser violation. It is not. Flies transfer bacteria directly to food surfaces and are particularly dangerous in buffet and open-prep environments. Asian Fusion Buffet in Apollo Beach was closed for both roach and fly activity, a combination that is acutely dangerous in an open-serving format where food sits exposed.
The sewage leak at NY Best Pizza in Altamonte Springs represents a different category of risk: raw sewage in proximity to food preparation means fecal contamination of surfaces, utensils, and potentially food itself. The unlicensed operation at the Marketplace in Orlando means there was no state-verified record that the facility had met baseline food safety standards before serving customers.
The Longer Record
Selected Closure Histories, Week of Oct. 7, 2026
Winghouse Bar and Grill is a regional chain with locations across Central and Northeast Florida. Its Daytona Beach location on N Atlantic Ave. was closed October 7 for roach activity, a finding that carries more weight at a chain location where corporate standards and franchise oversight are supposed to provide a floor for food safety compliance.
Copp Winery and Brewery in Crystal River is a winery and brewing operation, not a traditional restaurant, which makes it one of the more unusual entries in this week's closure list. Its rodent closure on October 7 took until 3:25 p.m. to clear, the longest single-day turnaround of any October 7 closure. A production and service facility dealing with rodent activity faces contamination risks that extend beyond a single prep station.
Gaspar Patio Bar and Grille in Temple Terrace did not clear its rodent closure until nearly 3 p.m., suggesting the remediation required more than a surface-level response. Miami Shores Golf Club and Stonegate Golf Club in Poinciana both cleared within hours, but their presence on the list is notable: club kitchens serving members in recreational settings are not exempt from the same standards applied to any commercial food operation, and this week's records confirm inspectors are checking them.
China One in Davie was closed October 7 for roach activity. No URL was on file for that location, and the state inspection database did not return a linked record, meaning its prior inspection history could not be independently verified from this dataset alone.
