JACKSONVILLE, FL. A ramen restaurant on San Jose Boulevard drew 11 high-severity violations in a single inspection last week, the highest count among 15 Duval County restaurants cited for serious food safety failures during the week of June 18, 2026.
ISO ISO Ramen at 11105 San Jose Blvd accumulated violations that touched nearly every layer of food safety: inspectors cited the restaurant for obtaining food from unapproved or unknown sources, failing to cook food to required minimum temperatures, and allowing food contact surfaces to go improperly cleaned and sanitized. The restaurant also drew citations for food in poor condition, inadequate shell stock identification, and an employee failing to report illness symptoms. No person in charge was present or performing duties during the visit.
The Violations
Bounxou Thai at 9825 San Jose Blvd followed with nine high-severity citations, including food contaminated by chemical, physical, or biological hazards, toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, and parasite destruction procedures not followed. The restaurant also failed to post a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods and did not properly use time as a public health control.
La Nopalera Mexican Restaurant at 8206 Philips Hwy received eight high-severity violations. Inspectors cited the restaurant for food from unapproved sources, failure to cook food to required minimum temperatures, toxic substances improperly identified or stored, and required procedures for specialized processes not followed. No person in charge was present.
Bob Evans Restaurant 420 at 3163 Hartley Rd also drew eight high-severity violations. The chain location was cited for food not cooked to required minimum temperature, improperly stored toxic chemicals, and failure to use time as a public health control correctly. No person in charge was present, and an employee was cited for not reporting illness symptoms.
Miya Asian Fusion at 10550 Old St Augustine Rd received seven high-severity violations with no intermediate violations at all, a profile that suggests the most serious failures were concentrated rather than spread across routine lapses. Inspectors cited food contaminated by chemical, physical, or biological hazards, food from unapproved sources, parasite destruction procedures not followed, and toxic chemicals improperly stored.
China Wok at 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy drew seven high-severity citations including no allergen awareness demonstrated, no employee health policy, and parasite destruction procedures not followed. A second China Wok location, at 10920 Baymeadows Rd, drew six high-severity violations of its own, including no person in charge, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, and no allergen awareness demonstrated.
Canopy Road Cafe at 10560 Old St Augustine Rd produced the highest combined total among the week's facilities at 12 violations across severity levels, six high and six intermediate. Inspectors cited improper sewage or wastewater disposal, parasite destruction procedures not followed, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, alongside multi-use utensils not properly cleaned.
On June 19, Tunis Wing and Seafood at 1935 N Main St was emergency-closed after inspectors documented roach activity. A separate location operating under a similar name, Tunis at 5059 Soutel Dr, drew five high-severity violations during the same week, including food from unapproved sources, no employee health policy, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, and toxic chemicals improperly stored.
Sakura Japanese Restaurant at 9432 San Jose Blvd was cited for six high-severity violations, among them food from unapproved sources, parasite destruction procedures not followed, and improper sewage or wastewater disposal.
Uncle Willies Southern Bistro at 3000 Dunn Ave drew six high-severity citations including food from unapproved sources, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, and no person in charge. Inspectors also noted improper sewage or wastewater disposal and single-use items being reused.
Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers at 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy received six high-severity violations, including no allergen awareness demonstrated, both toxic chemicals improperly stored and toxic substances improperly identified or used, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
San Jose Deli and Grill at 9735 Old St Augustine Rd was cited for six high-severity violations: food from unapproved sources, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, no employee health policy, improperly stored toxic chemicals, and no consumer advisory.
SR Ceviche Jax at 9825 San Jose Blvd drew six high-severity violations including food from unapproved sources, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, and single-use items being reused. At a ceviche restaurant, where raw fish is central to the menu, the unapproved sourcing citation carries particular weight.
Medusa Lounge at 9551 Bay Meadows Rd received five high-severity violations including inadequate handwashing facilities, improper sewage or wastewater disposal, and no person in charge.
What These Violations Mean
The food-from-unapproved-sources citation appeared at six facilities this week: ISO ISO Ramen, La Nopalera, Miya Asian Fusion, Uncle Willies Southern Bistro, San Jose Deli and Grill, SR Ceviche Jax, and Tunis at Soutel Drive. When a restaurant sources food outside of USDA- or FDA-regulated supply chains, there is no traceability. If a customer gets sick, investigators cannot trace the food back to a farm, processor, or distributor. At SR Ceviche Jax, a restaurant built around raw fish, that gap is not theoretical.
Parasite destruction failures at Bounxou Thai, Miya Asian Fusion, China Wok on Deerwood Lake Pkwy, Canopy Road Cafe, and Sakura Japanese Restaurant point to a specific and preventable danger. Fish served raw or undercooked, including sushi, sashimi, and ceviche, must be frozen to specific temperatures for specific durations to kill parasites including Anisakis and tapeworm. Skipping that step does not change the appearance of the food. A customer has no way to know.
The management-failure citation, issued when no person in charge is present or performing duties, showed up at ISO ISO Ramen, La Nopalera, Bob Evans on Hartley Road, Uncle Willies, China Wok on Baymeadows, and Medusa Lounge. CDC data links the absence of active managerial control to three times as many critical violations at a facility. When no one is accountable in the kitchen, the downstream failures documented this week, handwashing failures, temperature violations, unapproved sourcing, follow predictably.
Improper sewage or wastewater disposal, cited at Canopy Road Cafe, Sakura Japanese Restaurant, Uncle Willies Southern Bistro, and Medusa Lounge, is among the most direct contamination pathways in a food service environment. Raw sewage carries Hepatitis A, E. coli, and Salmonella. A drain backup or improperly routed waste line can deposit fecal matter on surfaces that food touches minutes later.
The Longer Record
La Nopalera on Philips Hwy has 67 prior inspections on record, the deepest history among this week's facilities. Eight high-severity violations at a restaurant that has been inspected that many times describes a pattern, not a single bad day. The Soutel Drive location of Tunis carries 58 prior inspections, and it drew five high-severity violations this week including food from unapproved sources and no employee health policy.
Bounxou Thai has 45 inspections on record and produced nine high-severity violations this week, the second-highest count. A restaurant with that inspection history drawing nine serious citations suggests the compliance failures documented are not new to this location.
ISO ISO Ramen, the week's top offender with 11 high-severity violations, has 26 prior inspections on record. That is a meaningful history, and this week's tally of 11 serious citations in a single visit represents its worst documented inspection by the measure of high-severity violations alone.
Canopy Road Cafe on Old St Augustine Rd presents the sharpest contrast in the week's data. The cafe has only six prior inspections on record, meaning it is a relatively new entrant into the inspection system. It still drew 12 total violations, six of them high-severity, including improper sewage disposal and parasite destruction failures. A new restaurant accumulating that profile that quickly is a different kind of concern than a veteran establishment with decades of inspections.
The emergency closure of Tunis Wing and Seafood on N Main Street for roach activity on June 19 came without a prior inspection count in this week's data. Whether inspectors had documented pest activity at that address before the closure is not reflected in the records available.