STUART, FL. State inspectors ordered Ramen Hana and Sushi on SE Ocean Boulevard closed on June 16 after documenting simultaneous rodent, roach and fly activity inside the restaurant, triggering the Stuart location's third emergency shutdown in less than four months.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation ordered the restaurant at 2661 SE Ocean Blvd vacated by June 17. It reopened the same day at 4:46 p.m., after inspectors cleared the facility.
What Inspectors Found
Ramen Hana and Sushi: Emergency Closures, 2026
The June 16 inspection produced six high-severity violations and two intermediate violations. The closure reason listed in state records is specific: rodent activity, roach activity and fly activity, all documented during the same visit.
That combination is notable. The two prior closures, in February and April, each cited fly activity alone. The June closure added rodents and roaches to the list.
The single intermediate violation recorded during the June 17 follow-up inspection involved single-use items being improperly reused. By the second follow-up inspection later that day, no violations remained and the restaurant was cleared to reopen.
What These Violations Mean
Rodent, roach and fly activity inside a food service operation are each treated as emergency-level violations under Florida law because each represents a direct contamination pathway to food, food-contact surfaces and equipment. Rodents leave droppings, urine and hair in areas where food is stored and prepared. A single rodent moving through a kitchen can contaminate surfaces that no amount of routine cleaning will address without first eliminating the infestation.
Roaches are harder to eradicate than flies and are associated with the spread of salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens. They travel between drains, walls and food prep areas, and their presence in numbers sufficient to trigger an emergency closure indicates an established population, not a stray insect.
Fly activity, which has now been cited in all three closures at Ramen Hana and Sushi, poses a contamination risk because flies move between waste and food without distinction. In the April closure, inspectors documented four high-severity violations alongside the fly activity. The June closure escalated that finding, with six high-severity violations and the addition of two other pest types.
The intermediate violation noted on the June 17 follow-up, reusing single-use items, carries its own contamination risk. Items like gloves, cups and foil containers are designed for one use because repeated use degrades the material and creates surfaces where bacteria accumulate in ways that standard washing cannot fully address.
The Pattern
The April closure followed the same arc as June: inspectors found violations, ordered the restaurant closed, and conducted multiple follow-up inspections before clearing the facility. In April, it took three follow-up visits across three days before the restaurant met state standards.
In February, the turnaround was faster. The restaurant closed on February 23 for fly activity and reopened the following day, February 24.
June's closure resolved in a single day, with two follow-up inspections on June 17 before the restaurant was cleared at 4:46 p.m.
The speed of each reopening matters less than the frequency of the closures themselves.
The Longer Record
State records show 36 inspections on file for Ramen Hana and Sushi, with 203 total violations documented across that history. Three of those inspections resulted in emergency closure orders.
The April 14 closure is particularly relevant context for June. Inspectors found four high-severity violations that day alongside the fly activity that triggered the shutdown. It took three follow-up inspections, on April 15, April 16 and April 17, before the facility cleared. Two of those follow-up visits still produced violations, including one intermediate violation on April 15.
The restaurant then went two months without a high-severity violation, passing inspections on April 17 through the end of that stretch. That two-month window ended with the June 16 closure.
Three emergency closures in 116 days, all involving pest activity, and all at the same location, represents a documented pattern in state records rather than isolated incidents. The February closure involved flies. The April closure involved flies. The June closure involved flies, plus rodents and roaches.
The addition of rodents and roaches to the June closure marks an escalation from what inspectors had documented in the two prior shutdowns. Whether the June reopening holds without another pest-related finding is not answered by the records available.