MIAMI, FL. A food worker at B2 Café Corp on SW 8th Street was observed using improper handwashing technique during an April 27 inspection, a failure state records classify as high-severity because it leaves pathogens on hands even after a washing attempt is made. That was one of six high-priority violations inspectors documented that day. The restaurant was not closed.
The inspection turned up a list of failures concentrated around raw and undercooked seafood. Inspectors cited the café for not following parasite destruction procedures, a violation that means fish served raw or lightly cooked, including items like sushi, ceviche, or undercooked fillets, had not been frozen to the temperatures and timeframes required to kill parasites such as Anisakis and tapeworm. They also found inadequate shell stock identification records, meaning the oysters, clams, or mussels on hand could not be traced back to a certified harvest source.
There was no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods.
What Inspectors Found
Beyond the seafood handling failures, inspectors found that no employee health policy existed at the café, and that at least one employee was not reporting illness symptoms. These two violations appear on the same inspection report as a matched pair: without a written policy, workers have no formal obligation to stay home when sick, and without reporting, there is no mechanism to remove a contagious employee from food handling duties before customers are exposed.
The intermediate violation, inadequate ventilation and lighting, rounded out the report.
What These Violations Mean
The parasite destruction failure is among the most direct food-safety risks the state tracks. When fish is served raw or undercooked without first being frozen to kill parasites, customers can ingest live Anisakis larvae or tapeworm. Symptoms range from severe abdominal pain to intestinal perforation. The risk is not theoretical: Anisakiasis cases in the United States have risen sharply as raw fish consumption has grown. At B2 Café Corp, inspectors found no evidence the required freezing protocols were in place.
The missing shell stock records compound that risk. Shellfish, including oysters, clams, and mussels, are filter feeders that concentrate bacteria and viruses from the water they grow in. State rules require certified harvest tags to remain on file so that if customers become ill, the source can be traced and a contaminated harvest recalled. Without those records at B2 Café Corp, that traceability chain is broken.
The absence of a consumer advisory is a separate but connected failure. State rules require restaurants serving raw or undercooked animal products to post a visible warning so that pregnant women, elderly customers, and people with weakened immune systems can make an informed choice. No such advisory was present during the April inspection.
The handwashing and illness-reporting violations close the loop. A worker using improper technique while also failing to report symptoms of illness creates a direct transmission route for Norovirus, the most common cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants. Norovirus can spread from a single infected food handler to dozens of customers through a single food-preparation session.
The Longer Record
B2 Café Corp: Inspection Severity Over Time
The April 2026 inspection is not an outlier. State records show B2 Café Corp has been inspected 20 times and has accumulated 101 total violations across its history. The café has never been emergency-closed.
The December 2024 inspection produced an identical violation count: 6 high-severity and 1 intermediate. That inspection came 16 months before the April 2026 visit, and the severity level did not improve in the intervening period. The November 2025 inspection, filed between those two peaks, found 3 high-severity violations.
Only one inspection in the available record, a September 2023 visit, produced zero violations. Every other inspection on file found at least one high-priority citation. The pattern across 2023, 2024, 2025, and now 2026 is consistent: high-severity violations appear at nearly every visit, with the worst inspections clustered at six high-priority citations each.
The café has never triggered an emergency closure order despite that record.
Open for Business
State inspectors documented six high-priority violations at B2 Café Corp on April 27, including failures that left raw seafood customers with no parasite controls, no traceability for shellfish, and no posted warning that the food they were ordering was undercooked. It was the second time in 16 months the café had reached that violation count in a single inspection.
The restaurant remained open.