MIAMI BEACH, FL. Two days after inspectors cited Coyote on Collins Avenue for 14 high-severity violations, they came back and found 10 more.
The May 29, 2026 inspection of the restaurant at 1351 Collins Ave produced a list that included undercooking food to below required temperatures, improperly stored toxic chemicals, no allergen awareness among staff, and food in poor, adulterated, or mislabeled condition. The facility was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The undercooking violation is the most direct threat to anyone who ate there. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. A kitchen that is not reaching required minimum temperatures is sending potentially contaminated food directly to the table.
The toxic chemical violations compounded the picture. Inspectors cited Coyote for both improperly stored or labeled toxic chemicals and improperly identified, stored, or used toxic substances, two separate citations covering the same category of risk. Chemicals stored near food or mislabeled create a direct route to acute poisoning.
The allergen finding is its own category of danger. Inspectors documented no allergen awareness demonstrated by staff. Food allergies affect 32 million Americans, and a kitchen where staff cannot identify allergens in dishes is a kitchen where a customer with a severe allergy has no reliable protection.
The restaurant also lacked a written employee health policy, meaning there was no formal mechanism to keep sick workers out of food preparation. Inspectors additionally cited improper handwashing technique, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, time as a public health control not properly used, and no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked menu items.
On the intermediate level, inspectors found improper sewage or wastewater disposal, multi-use utensils not properly cleaned, inadequate ventilation and lighting, and inadequate or improperly maintained toilet facilities.
What These Violations Mean
The undercooking and time-abuse violations together describe a kitchen where food is leaving the danger zone improperly, in two different directions. Undercooking means pathogens survive to the plate. Time abuse, where food is held in the temperature range between 41 and 135 degrees without adequate controls, means bacteria multiply before food ever reaches the heat. Both violations at the same facility, in the same inspection, indicate a systemic failure in temperature management.
The allergen and consumer advisory violations affect the most vulnerable diners specifically. Customers who are pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, or managing food allergies rely on staff knowledge and posted advisories to make safe choices. When neither exists, those customers have no way to protect themselves.
The sewage and toilet facility violations matter beyond hygiene optics. Improper sewage disposal creates fecal contamination risk throughout a facility. Inadequate toilet facilities discourage employees from washing hands properly between tasks. Those two intermediate violations, alongside the high-severity handwashing technique citation, describe a facility where the basic infrastructure for preventing contamination is compromised.
Improperly cleaned multi-use utensils develop bacterial biofilms within 24 hours. Those biofilms resist standard cleaning and can transfer pathogens to food even when a surface appears clean.
The Longer Record
The May 29 inspection did not happen in isolation. Two days earlier, on May 27, inspectors had cited Coyote for 14 high-severity violations and 4 intermediate violations, a single-visit total of 18 citations. The May 29 return visit produced 10 high-severity and 4 intermediate violations, a total of 14. The restaurant was not closed after either inspection.
The pattern extends back years. State records show 26 inspections on file for this location, with 276 total violations documented across that history. The trajectory has worsened: 1 high-severity violation in November 2023, then 5 in March 2023, then 3 in August 2024, then 4 in May 2024, then 5 in January 2025, then 7 in July 2025, then 14 in May 2026, then 10 more two days later.
No emergency closure appears anywhere in that 26-inspection record.
The categories have not changed much either. High-severity violations have appeared in nearly every inspection going back through 2022. The volume has grown, but the type of failure, kitchen-level, food-handling, and chemical storage, has remained consistent.
Still Open
Florida's emergency closure authority is triggered when an inspector determines that continued operation poses an immediate threat to public health. Ten high-severity violations in a single inspection, following 14 high-severity violations 48 hours earlier at the same address, did not meet that threshold at Coyote on Collins Avenue.
The restaurant remained open after the May 29 inspection.