BOCA RATON, FL. State inspectors ordered Miyi La Cubanita Cuban Cafe Chola Wengue Inc at 1332 NW 2 Ave closed on August 26, 2026, after finding evidence of rodent activity inside the restaurant. It was the fourth time in the facility's recorded history that the state has shut it down, and the third time in less than twelve months that rodents were the reason.
The closure order required the restaurant to vacate by August 27. Inspectors returned that same day, found the high-severity violations resolved, and the cafe was cleared to reopen by 9:58 a.m.
What Inspectors Found
Miyi La Cubanita: Emergency Closure History
The August 26 inspection logged four high-severity violations and two intermediate violations. Among the intermediate violations documented on the follow-up visit the next day was the improper reuse of single-use items, a separate concern inspectors noted even as the facility was working toward clearance.
The four high-severity violations from the closure inspection itself are what triggered the shutdown. State records list rodent activity as the specific reason the emergency order was issued.
What This Means
Rodent activity inside a food service facility is not a paperwork violation. Mice and rats deposit urine and droppings continuously as they move, contaminating food prep surfaces, stored ingredients, and equipment that may never be visibly soiled but is no longer safe for food contact.
The danger is direct. Rodents carry pathogens including Salmonella and Leptospira. When they travel across cutting boards, through dry storage, or over dishes left out overnight, those pathogens transfer to surfaces that will later touch the food customers eat. Unlike a temperature violation that can be corrected by adjusting a cooler, rodent contamination requires identifying and sealing every entry point, removing all compromised food and materials, and sanitizing surfaces that may span an entire kitchen.
That is why Florida law gives inspectors authority to order an immediate emergency closure for rodent activity rather than issuing a citation and scheduling a return visit. The risk to customers eating in the facility that same day is considered too acute to wait.
The intermediate violation noted on the August 27 follow-up, the reuse of single-use items such as gloves, cups, utensils, or foil, carries its own contamination risk. Items designed for a single use are not built to be sanitized between uses. Reusing them transfers bacteria from one surface or food to the next, bypassing the hygiene controls that single-use design is meant to guarantee.
The Pattern
The August closure was not a sudden finding at a restaurant with an otherwise clean record. It was the third time since September 2025 that state inspectors have shut this specific location down for rodent activity.
Inspectors closed the cafe on September 10, 2025, for rodent activity. It reopened the next day after passing a follow-up inspection. Sixty-three days later, on November 12, 2025, inspectors returned and found rodent activity again. The cafe was closed a second time and cleared again the following morning.
A January 12, 2026 inspection then logged four high-severity violations and two intermediate violations, matching the severity profile of the closure inspections that bracketed it. A clean inspection followed in November 2025, and another on September 11, 2025, both on the day after emergency closures, when the restaurant had just been scrubbed to meet state standards.
The cycle is documented plainly in the records: a clean inspection immediately after a closure, followed weeks or months later by another high-severity finding.
The Longer Record
Miyi La Cubanita has accumulated 141 violations across 33 inspections on record, an average of more than four violations per inspection visit. Four of those inspections have resulted in emergency closure orders.
The facility's first recorded emergency closure was in August 2019, when sewage leaks forced a same-day shutdown. The next three closures, all for rodent activity, came in a ten-and-a-half-month span between September 2025 and August 2026.
The inspection data shows a facility that passes its follow-up checks consistently, sometimes within hours of a closure order, but has not sustained those results between inspections. Three separate rodent-related closures at the same address, each followed by a clean bill of health, each followed by another rodent finding, suggests the underlying access points or conditions that allow rodent entry have not been permanently resolved.
The cafe was cleared to reopen on the morning of August 27. Whether the conditions that produced three rodent closures in under a year have been addressed in any lasting way is not something a single follow-up inspection can confirm.
