MIAMI BEACH, FL. Inspectors who visited Maman at 1874 Bay Road on August 18 found an employee who had not reported symptoms of illness to management, a violation that state health data identifies as the single leading cause of multi-victim foodborne outbreaks.
That was one of eight high-severity violations documented that day. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The inspection also cited food from an unapproved or unknown source, food not cooked to required minimum temperatures, and inadequate shell stock identification records. Inspectors further noted that food contact surfaces had not been properly cleaned or sanitized, that employees were using improper handwashing technique, and that no consumer advisory was posted for raw or undercooked menu items.
No person in charge was present or performing supervisory duties at the time of the inspection.
Three intermediate violations rounded out the findings: improper sewage or wastewater disposal, inadequate ventilation and lighting, and inadequate or improperly maintained toilet facilities.
What These Violations Mean
The unreported illness violation is the one that most directly threatened anyone who ate at Maman that day. When a food worker handles ingredients while symptomatic with norovirus or a similar illness, transmission to customers is direct. It does not require a lapse in cooking temperature or a contaminated surface. The worker is the vehicle.
The food-from-unapproved-sources citation compounds that risk. Ingredients that enter a kitchen outside of USDA or FDA-regulated supply chains carry no inspection history. If a customer were to become ill, there would be no way to trace the ingredient back to its origin, no recall to trigger, no supplier to notify.
The undercooking violation adds a third, independent pathway to illness. Salmonella in poultry survives temperatures below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. The shell stock citation adds a fourth: oysters, clams, and mussels are consumed raw or lightly cooked, and without proper tagging records, a contaminated batch cannot be identified or pulled once it has been served.
The improperly cleaned food contact surfaces citation means all of those risks could be multiplied across every dish prepared on those surfaces. Each violation on August 18 was serious on its own. Together, they describe a kitchen with multiple simultaneous failure points and no manager present to catch any of them.
The Longer Record
The August 18 inspection was not a first-time stumble. State records show Maman has been inspected 16 times in total, accumulating 128 violations across that history.
The pattern of high-severity citations runs back years. Inspectors documented seven high-severity violations in a single visit on September 1, 2023. Four high-severity violations appeared in the January 2025 inspection, four more in August 2025, and four more again in January 2026. The August 2026 visit, with eight high-severity violations, was the worst single inspection on record for this location.
The facility has never been emergency-closed.
A follow-up inspection on August 26, eight days after the violations were documented, found zero high-severity violations and only two at the intermediate level. That turnaround suggests the specific deficiencies from August 18 were addressed. It does not explain why the same categories of violations, including high-severity citations, have reappeared across at least seven of the facility's 16 inspections on record.
Still Open
Florida's inspection system does not automatically close a restaurant for accumulating high-severity violations. Emergency closure requires an inspector to determine that an immediate threat to public health exists. On August 18, despite citing an unreported sick employee, food from unapproved sources, undercooking, and the absence of a person in charge, the inspector did not make that determination.
Maman remained open and serving customers that day.
