ORLANDO, FL. State inspectors walked into Grazie on Corrine Drive on July 9 and found what it takes to shut a restaurant down immediately: active rodent activity, live roach activity and fly activity, all documented in a single inspection that triggered an emergency closure order by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
The restaurant at 3101 Corrine Dr was ordered vacated by July 10. It reopened the same day at 12:30 p.m., after a follow-up inspection that found the pest activity had been addressed.
What Inspectors Found
Grazie on Corrine Drive: Recent Inspection Pattern
The July 9 inspection logged 7 high-severity violations and 4 intermediate violations. Among the high-severity findings: food employees were not washing their hands adequately, and food contact surfaces had not been properly cleaned or sanitized. An intermediate violation cited inadequate cooling and cold holding equipment.
The follow-up inspection on July 10 still found 2 high-severity violations and 1 intermediate violation remaining. Grazie was permitted to reopen, but those unresolved violations were part of the record at the moment the doors reopened.
What These Violations Mean
Pest activity of the kind documented at Grazie on July 9 is not a single problem. Rodents, roaches and flies each represent a separate contamination pathway. Rodents leave droppings and urine on food preparation surfaces and in stored food. Roaches carry pathogens including Salmonella and E. coli on their bodies and deposit them wherever they travel. Flies land on food directly. When all three are present at once, the contamination risk across the kitchen is not contained to one area.
The handwashing violation compounds that risk. Improper handwashing is the most direct route for spreading foodborne illness from a contaminated environment to the food a customer receives. When employees are working in a kitchen with active pest activity and are not washing their hands adequately, the two violations reinforce each other.
The food contact surface violation adds a third layer. Cutting boards, prep surfaces and utensils that have not been properly cleaned and sanitized become vehicles for bacterial transfer between raw and ready-to-eat food. Combined with the cooling equipment failure cited as an intermediate violation, which means the restaurant lacked adequate equipment to keep food out of the temperature range where bacteria multiply, the July 9 inspection described a kitchen where multiple systems had broken down at the same time.
The Longer Record
This was not Grazie's first emergency closure. State records show the restaurant has one prior emergency closure on record before July 9, making this its second forced shutdown.
The inspection history across 23 visits and 205 total violations tells a story of a facility that has cycled between serious findings and, at least once, a clean record. In September 2024, inspectors found zero high-severity violations and zero intermediate violations. That clean inspection is the only one of its kind in the recent visible record.
What followed the September 2024 clean visit was a rapid deterioration. By April 2025, inspectors were back with 7 high-severity violations. June 2025 produced the worst single inspection in the recent record: 11 high-severity violations and 6 intermediate violations in one visit. October 2025 brought two inspections within two days of each other, on October 27 and October 29, each logging high-severity counts of 7 and 6 respectively. The March 2026 inspection found 6 high-severity violations.
The July 9 closure came after five consecutive inspections, spanning more than a year, that each produced between 6 and 11 high-severity violations. The one inspection that broke that pattern, in September 2024, now looks like an outlier in a record that has otherwise been defined by persistent high-severity findings across multiple categories.
After the Reopening
Grazie reopened on July 10 at 12:30 p.m. The follow-up inspection that cleared the restaurant for reopening still documented 2 high-severity violations and 1 intermediate violation. Those violations were present at the time the restaurant was permitted to resume service.
Calls to Grazie were not returned.
The restaurant's 23 inspections on record and 205 total violations place it among the more heavily inspected and more heavily cited permanent food service facilities in Orange County. Whether the conditions that triggered the July 9 closure have been fully resolved is a question the next inspection will answer.
