JACKSONVILLE BEACH, FL. Inspectors who visited 1810 Tacos y Tequila on Marsh Landing Parkway on August 4 documented food coming from unapproved or unknown sources, meaning some of what was served to customers that day had bypassed federal safety inspections entirely. The restaurant collected 10 high-severity violations in a single visit. It was never closed.
What Inspectors Found
The food-sourcing violation is among the most serious in the group. Food from unapproved suppliers has not been inspected by USDA or FDA, which means if a contaminated product makes someone sick, health officials have no paperwork trail to trace it. There is no way to issue a recall or identify other affected customers.
Inspectors also found that employees were not reporting illness symptoms, that handwashing technique was improper, and that no person in charge was present or performing supervisory duties. That combination, no oversight, no illness reporting, and flawed handwashing, creates conditions where a sick employee can transmit a pathogen directly to food without any mechanism to catch it.
Two violations involved toxic substances. Inspectors cited both improper storage or labeling of toxic chemicals and improper identification, storage, or use of toxic substances. The distinction between those two citations suggests the problem was broad enough to require two separate write-ups on the same visit.
Shellfish violations added another layer of risk. Inspectors flagged inadequate shell stock identification records and found that parasite destruction procedures for raw or undercooked fish were not being followed. A missing consumer advisory meant customers were not informed they were eating food that carried those risks.
Food was also found not cooked to required minimum temperatures. Undercooking is one of the most direct routes to foodborne illness, particularly for Salmonella in poultry.
What These Violations Mean
The food-from-unapproved-sources citation is not a paperwork problem. When a restaurant sources food outside licensed suppliers, that food has not been tested for Listeria, Salmonella, E. coli, or other pathogens at any point in its journey to the plate. If a customer gets sick, investigators cannot identify the product or where it came from.
The shellfish violations compound that risk. Oysters, clams, and mussels are frequently consumed raw or barely cooked, and they filter bacteria and viruses directly from the water they live in. Shell stock tags are the only mechanism that allows a health department to trace a contaminated shellfish harvest back to its source bed and pull it from circulation. Without those records, an outbreak tied to shellfish at this restaurant could not be traced.
Parasite destruction requires specific freezing temperatures held for specific durations, or cooking to internal temperatures that kill organisms like Anisakis in fish or Trichinella in pork. Skipping that step does not guarantee a customer gets sick, but it removes the barrier that prevents it.
The illness-reporting failure is the one that most often precedes a multi-victim outbreak. Norovirus spreads through food handled by infected workers, and it can sicken dozens of customers before anyone connects the cases. The absence of a person in charge on the floor means there was no one positioned to send a sick employee home.
The Longer Record
The August 4 inspection was not an anomaly. State records show 1810 Tacos y Tequila has accumulated 66 total violations across 10 inspections on record, and the pattern of high-severity citations goes back years.
In July 2024, inspectors found six high-severity and four intermediate violations. A follow-up two days later found zero violations, suggesting the restaurant can correct problems quickly when pressed. That pattern repeated in July 2025, when seven high-severity and five intermediate violations were documented, followed six days later by a clean inspection.
January 2026 brought five more high-severity violations and one intermediate. Then August 4 produced the worst single-visit count in the record: 10 high-severity violations. A follow-up on August 6 showed two high-severity violations remaining, and another follow-up on August 10 showed two high-severity violations still on the books.
The restaurant has never been emergency-closed. Not after the July 2024 inspection. Not after the July 2025 inspection. Not after August 4.
Still Open
The two follow-up inspections after August 4 reduced the count but did not clear it. As of August 10, two high-severity violations remained documented at the restaurant.
The August 4 inspection produced 10 high-severity findings, including food from an unknown source, sick employees with no reporting requirement being enforced, improperly stored chemicals, and shellfish with no traceability records. The restaurant served customers that day.
