MIAMI BEACH, FL. State inspectors ordered Parrilla @ 12 on Washington Avenue closed on June 12 after finding roach activity inside the restaurant, giving the ownership until June 13 to vacate and correct the conditions that triggered the shutdown.
The closure was not the restaurant's first. State records show Parrilla @ 12 has accumulated 263 violations across 26 inspections on record, and this was its second emergency closure.
What Inspectors Found
Parrilla @ 12: Recent Inspection Record
The June 12 inspection produced six high-severity violations and two intermediate violations. Among the documented findings was a violation for food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, a high-severity citation that inspectors flagged alongside the roach activity that ultimately closed the restaurant.
The callback inspection on June 13 found one remaining high-severity violation. The restaurant was cleared to reopen at 8:28 that morning.
What These Violations Mean
Roach activity inside a food service establishment is one of the conditions Florida regulators treat as an immediate threat to public health, serious enough to close a restaurant on the spot without a warning period. Live roaches move between waste, drains, and surfaces where food is prepared, transferring bacteria including Salmonella directly onto cutting boards, prep tables, and equipment. A single roach sighting in the wrong location can contaminate food that reaches a customer's plate within minutes.
The second high-severity violation from the June 12 inspection, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, compounds that risk. Cutting boards, prep surfaces, and utensils that carry residue from prior use become transfer points for bacteria between raw and ready-to-eat foods. When pest activity and unsanitary food contact surfaces exist at the same time, the contamination pathways multiply.
The fact that one high-severity violation remained on the callback inspection on June 13, even after the restaurant had been ordered to correct all violations overnight, is a detail the record documents without explanation.
The Pattern Behind the Closure
The June 12 shutdown did not arrive without context. The inspection record at Parrilla @ 12 shows that high-severity violations have appeared at nearly every visit over the past two years.
December 2024 produced six high-severity violations and three intermediate ones. February 2025 brought three high-severity and one intermediate. April 2025 added four high-severity and four intermediate violations. Then, on July 7, 2025, inspectors visited and found seven high-severity violations and two intermediate ones, a total severe enough to prompt a same-day callback inspection that cleared the restaurant to reopen.
That July 2025 sequence mirrors almost exactly what happened in June 2026: a high-violation inspection followed immediately by a callback, followed by reopening within hours.
The Longer Record
Across 26 inspections on record, Parrilla @ 12 has accumulated 263 total violations. That works out to an average of more than 10 violations per inspection visit, a figure that places persistent pressure on the idea that individual findings are isolated or corrected for good.
This is the restaurant's second emergency closure in its documented history. The first preceded the current inspection record's most recent entries. The recurrence of a closure-level event, after a prior closure and after a string of inspections each producing multiple high-severity violations, is the central fact the record presents.
The one inspection in the recent history with zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations came on July 7, 2025, the same-day callback after the seven-violation visit. A clean callback result is what regulators require before a restaurant reopens. It does not erase what the prior visit found.
The June 2024 inspection also produced only one high-severity violation and no intermediate violations, the lightest finding in the two-year window. Every other visit in that span produced at least three high-severity violations.
Parrilla @ 12 reopened on the morning of June 13. Whether the single high-severity violation that remained on the callback inspection has since been resolved is not reflected in the records available at time of publication.