MIAMI, FL. Food from unapproved or unknown sources was among the violations state inspectors documented at Groovin' Bean at 801 NW 3rd Avenue on April 23, meaning customers had no way of knowing whether what they ate had ever passed a federal safety inspection.
That was one of seven high-severity violations cited that day. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The April 23 inspection produced a list that reads less like a coffee shop audit and more like a catalog of the ways food service can go wrong all at once. Inspectors cited inadequate handwashing by food employees, food not cooked to required minimum temperatures, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, and food in poor condition, mislabeled, or adulterated.
Two additional high-severity violations rounded out the findings: time as a public health control not properly used, and no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods. Two intermediate violations, inadequate ventilation and lighting and equipment in poor repair, accompanied the high-severity citations.
Nine violations in a single visit. Seven of them at the highest severity level the state assigns.
What These Violations Mean
The food-from-unapproved-sources violation is not a paperwork technicality. When food arrives outside the USDA and FDA inspection chain, there is no traceability if a customer gets sick. An outbreak linked to an uninspected supplier can take investigators weeks to trace, weeks during which more people are exposed.
The handwashing violation sits alongside it as one of the most direct transmission routes in any food service environment. Hands carry bacteria from raw proteins, from surfaces, from illness. When employees skip or rush handwashing, that transfer goes directly onto food, onto plates, onto the next customer's order.
Undercooking compounds the risk. Pathogens like Salmonella in poultry survive below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. A temperature shortcut at the grill is not a minor lapse; it is the condition under which bacteria that cause serious illness reach a customer's plate alive.
The time-as-public-health-control violation adds another layer. When a facility uses time rather than temperature to manage food safety, it operates under strict rules about how long food can remain in the temperature danger zone, between 41 and 135 degrees. Not following those rules means food that should have been discarded is still being served. The absence of a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items means customers with compromised immune systems, pregnant women, the elderly, and young children had no warning that what they ordered carried additional risk.
The Longer Record
The April inspection was not an aberration. Groovin' Bean has 19 inspections on record with the state, accumulating 116 total violations across that history.
The two most recent prior inspections, in February 2026 and November 2024, each included high-severity violations. The February 2026 visit cited two high-severity and one intermediate violation, less than ten weeks before the April inspection that produced seven high-severity citations. March 2024 also produced two high-severity violations.
The facility's worst single inspection before April 2026 came on February 23, 2022, when inspectors cited eight high-severity and five intermediate violations. The following day, February 24, 2022, a return visit still found one high-severity and two intermediate violations. The facility has never been emergency-closed across all 19 inspections on record.
The two clean inspections in 2023, one in June and one in August with zero high-severity or intermediate violations, stand as the exception across this facility's history, not the rule.
Open for Business
State inspectors documented seven high-severity violations at Groovin' Bean on April 23, 2026. Among them: food with no verified safe origin, employees not washing their hands adequately, food not reaching the temperatures required to kill pathogens, and food held outside safe time controls with no advisory to warn the customers eating it.
The restaurant remained open.