STUART, FL. State inspectors ordered Twin Dragon Restaurant on SE Ocean Blvd closed on June 23 after finding both roach and rodent activity inside the Stuart restaurant, the third emergency closure the facility has accumulated in state inspection records.
The closure order gave the restaurant until June 25 to correct the conditions. Inspectors returned and documented two intermediate violations on June 24, then cleared the facility entirely on June 25, with zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations recorded. The restaurant reopened at 10:31 a.m.
What Inspectors Found
Twin Dragon: Recent Inspection History
The June 23 inspection produced four high-severity violations and two intermediate violations. The triggering conditions, roach activity and rodent activity documented together in a single visit, were enough under state rules to warrant an immediate emergency closure order.
The restaurant was not shut down for a single lapse. Inspectors found evidence of two separate pest problems at the same time.
The Prior Closure
This was not the first time pest activity forced Twin Dragon to close. On May 12, 2025, inspectors ordered the restaurant shut for roach activity alone. It reopened the following day, May 13, after corrections were made.
That closure came roughly six weeks after a stretch in which the restaurant had already drawn scrutiny. The July 2025 inspections, conducted on consecutive days, produced five high-severity violations on July 15 and two more on July 16, suggesting the May closure had not resolved the underlying conditions.
December 2, 2025 was the worst single visit in the recent record. Inspectors documented six high-severity violations that day, the highest count in any single inspection in the data. No intermediate violations were recorded alongside them, meaning the problems inspectors flagged that day were concentrated entirely at the most serious level of concern.
What This Means
An emergency closure for roach and rodent activity is not a precautionary measure. State inspectors order a restaurant vacated when conditions present an imminent hazard to public health, meaning the risk is present and ongoing at the moment inspectors are standing in the building.
Roaches are direct vectors for pathogens including Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria. They move between waste areas and food preparation surfaces, contaminating both the surfaces and any food they contact. Rodents carry similar risks and introduce the additional hazard of contaminating food with urine and droppings, which can spread diseases including leptospirosis and hantavirus.
Finding both in the same inspection means two separate pest populations had established themselves inside a working kitchen. That is not a condition that develops overnight.
The four high-severity violations recorded on June 23 reflect the seriousness with which state inspectors classify active pest presence. High-severity violations are those the state has determined pose the greatest direct risk of foodborne illness to customers.
The Longer Record
Twin Dragon has 37 inspections on record and 228 total violations documented across those visits. For a permanent food service facility, that volume reflects years of recurring findings, not isolated incidents.
The pattern in the recent history is specific. Of the eight inspections documented between July 2025 and June 2026, six produced high-severity violations. The two that did not, the clearance inspections on June 24 and June 25, came only after the emergency closure had already been issued and the restaurant had spent two days correcting conditions under a shutdown order.
The May 2025 closure and the June 2026 closure were both triggered by roach activity. The June 2026 closure added rodent activity on top of that. The same category of violation, active pest presence at the most serious level, produced two emergency shutdowns in 13 months.
The December 2025 inspection produced six high-severity violations without triggering a closure, which means inspectors found serious problems that visit but not the specific conditions that meet the emergency threshold. The restaurant was back in front of inspectors again in February 2026, when two more high-severity violations were recorded.
Twin Dragon has now been emergency-closed three times in the inspection record. Each of the documented closures involved pest activity. The restaurant cleared its June 25 reinspection with no violations remaining, but the June 23 closure was its second pest-related shutdown in just over a year, and it arrived six months after the highest single-visit high-severity count in the recent record.
