MIAMI, FL. A state inspector walked into Delicias de Espana 2 on SW 40th Street on May 13 and found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, meaning any customer who ate there that day consumed ingredients that bypassed federal safety inspections entirely. The restaurant was not closed.
The inspection turned up eight high-severity violations and three intermediate ones, a total of eleven citations at a facility that has now accumulated 310 violations across 31 inspections on record.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food source citation is among the most serious a food service inspector can write. Food that enters a restaurant outside of licensed, regulated supply chains carries no traceability, no documentation of how it was handled or stored, and no federal inspection record.
The restaurant also had no written employee health policy and no system requiring workers to report illness symptoms. Those two violations appear together on the same inspection report.
Inspectors also cited the facility for inadequate shell stock identification records. Shellfish such as oysters, clams, and mussels are consumed raw or lightly cooked, and without proper sourcing tags, there is no way to trace a contaminated batch if customers become sick. The citation for no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods compounds that risk: customers who are elderly, pregnant, or immunocompromised had no way to know they were ordering something served without full cooking.
Toxic chemicals were found improperly stored or labeled near the kitchen. Wiping cloths were used improperly, a violation inspectors flag because cloths reused across surfaces carry bacteria from one area to another. And the facility had intermediate violations for both sewage disposal and ventilation.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of no health policy and no illness-reporting requirement is not a paperwork problem. Food workers who have no formal obligation to report symptoms of nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea are the leading driver of multi-victim Norovirus outbreaks in restaurant settings. Norovirus spreads through direct contact with contaminated food, and a single infected employee can expose dozens of customers before anyone realizes there is a problem.
The handwashing technique violation adds another layer. Inspectors do not cite this violation when employees skip handwashing entirely; they cite it when employees go through the motions incorrectly, leaving pathogens on their hands even after washing. At a facility where illness reporting is also absent, that is a compounding failure.
The sewage disposal violation is in a different category. Improper handling of wastewater creates the possibility of fecal contamination spreading through the facility, across surfaces, and into food preparation areas. Combined with improperly used wiping cloths moving bacteria from surface to surface, the inspection record describes a facility where contamination had multiple active pathways.
The unapproved food source violation means that if a customer became ill after eating at Delicias de Espana 2 on May 13, investigators would have no supply chain to trace. There is no harvest record, no distributor log, no federal inspection stamp. The food simply arrived from somewhere.
The Longer Record
Delicias de Espana 2: Recent Inspection History
The May 2026 inspection is not an outlier. In November 2025, inspectors found 11 high-severity violations at the same address, the highest single-visit count in the recent record. In November 2024, a visit on the 18th turned up 10 high-severity violations and 3 intermediate ones. The pattern across 31 inspections is one of recurring high-severity counts, brief apparent improvements, and then returns to double-digit serious violations.
The facility has never been emergency-closed. In 310 total violations across its inspection history, the state has not once determined that conditions required immediate shutdown.
The restaurant had no emergency closures on record before May 13. It had no emergency closure after May 13 either.
Delicias de Espana 2 was open for business the day inspectors found food from an unknown source, no employee illness policy, improperly stored chemicals, and improper sewage disposal. It remained open after they left.