MIAMI, FL. A restaurant that has been on state inspectors' radar for only two visits drew 14 high-severity violations in a single inspection during the week of June 1, 2026, more than any other facility in Miami-Dade County that week and a number that would be alarming at a location with decades of prior record.
Le Specialita/Kryu at 40 NE 41 St in the Design District accumulated those 14 high-severity citations alongside 4 intermediate violations. Inspectors found no person in charge present or performing duties, no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness symptoms, and improper handwashing technique, a cluster of failures that, taken together, describe a kitchen operating without basic oversight. The restaurant also drew violations for food from unapproved or unknown sources, food in poor condition or adulterated, inadequate shell stock identification, and failure to follow parasite destruction procedures for fish.
That is two inspections on record, and 18 total violations.
What Inspectors Found
Citadel at 8300 NE 2 Ave drew 10 high-severity violations, including no person in charge, no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing facilities, improper handwashing technique, failure to follow parasite destruction procedures, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
Suviche at 49 SW 11 St also reached 10 high-severity violations. The citations there included no person in charge, no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing by food employees, inadequate handwashing facilities, improper handwashing technique, inadequate shell stock identification, and no consumer advisory. That is three separate handwashing failures cited at a single location in a single visit.
Caracas Bakery at 7283 Biscayne Blvd drew 9 high-severity violations, including food from unapproved or unknown sources, parasite destruction procedures not followed, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, and two separate chemical storage violations: toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used.
Charlatam Restaurant and Bar at 2525 SW 3 Ave also reached 9 high-severity violations and drew zero intermediate violations. Inspectors cited food from unapproved or unknown sources, food in poor condition or adulterated, inadequate shell stock identification, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, and improper use of time as a public health control. Employees were also cited for not reporting illness symptoms, inadequate handwashing, and improper handwashing technique.
Rinconcito Latino Sunset at 15500 SW 72nd St drew 8 high-severity violations, including food from unapproved sources, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, toxic chemicals improperly stored, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
San Villa Asian Fusion at 30 NE 3 Ave also drew 8 high-severity violations, with citations for food from unapproved sources, food in poor condition, inadequate shell stock identification, parasite destruction procedures not followed, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, and no consumer advisory.
Toasted Bagelry and Deli at 3693 SW 22 Ter drew 7 high-severity violations, including food in poor condition, inadequate shell stock identification, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, improper use of time as a public health control, and two chemical storage violations. Inspectors also cited inadequate cooling and cold holding equipment as an intermediate violation.
Bocas House at 10200 NW 25 St drew 6 high-severity violations, including inadequate handwashing facilities, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, improper use of time as a public health control, no consumer advisory, and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled.
Chicken Kitchen at 6907 Biscayne Blvd drew 6 high-severity violations, including food in poor condition, parasite destruction procedures not followed, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, no consumer advisory, and toxic chemicals improperly stored.
Rounding out the week: Sak Pase Restaurant at 10981 SW 186 St drew 5 high-severity violations and 4 intermediate violations, including improper sewage or wastewater disposal. Caribe Cafeteria Restaurant at 2660 SW 137 Ave drew 5 high-severity violations, two chemical storage citations, and an intermediate violation for improper sewage disposal. Miami Slice at 1335 NE Miami Ct drew 5 high-severity violations including food not cooked to required minimum temperature and failure to follow procedures for specialized processes. Deli and Antojitos at 272 NE 1 St drew 5 high-severity violations including food not cooked to required minimum temperature and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used. Mr Baker at 10720 W Flagler St drew 2 high-severity violations: employees not reporting illness symptoms and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled.
What These Violations Mean
The single most repeated cluster this week was the combination of no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness symptoms, and no person in charge. Le Specialita/Kryu, Citadel, Suviche, and Caracas Bakery all drew at least two of those three violations together. That combination matters because each failure reinforces the others: without a written health policy, workers have no documented standard for when to stay home; without someone in charge enforcing that standard, sick employees have no reason to report symptoms; and without illness reports, a kitchen can unknowingly send Norovirus or Salmonella to every table it serves.
Food from unapproved or unknown sources appeared at Le Specialita/Kryu, Caracas Bakery, Charlatam, Rinconcito Latino Sunset, and San Villa Asian Fusion. The problem is traceability. When a food product has not passed through a USDA- or FDA-regulated supply chain, there is no paper trail if a customer gets sick. An outbreak investigation that might otherwise identify a contaminated batch of shellfish or a supplier's Listeria problem goes cold because the source cannot be traced.
Shell stock identification failures at Le Specialita/Kryu, Charlatam, Suviche, San Villa Asian Fusion, and Toasted Bagelry and Deli compound that risk specifically for raw shellfish. Oysters, clams, and mussels are frequently eaten raw or barely cooked, and they concentrate pathogens from the water they grow in. The tags that accompany each bag of shellfish are the only mechanism that allows inspectors or health officials to trace a Vibrio or hepatitis A case back to a specific harvest location. Without those records, that mechanism does not exist.
Chemical storage violations appeared at nine of the fifteen facilities this week, including Bocas House, Caracas Bakery, Rinconcito Latino Sunset, Toasted Bagelry and Deli, Chicken Kitchen, Mr Baker, Sak Pase, Caribe Cafeteria, and Deli and Antojitos. Cleaning chemicals stored near or above food preparation surfaces can contaminate food directly, and mislabeled containers have caused acute poisoning when workers mistake a chemical for a food ingredient. The frequency of this violation across a single week suggests it is not a fluke at any one location.
The Longer Record
The inspection history behind these facilities tells two distinct stories. Several locations have accumulated dozens of prior inspections without apparent resolution of the same categories of problems. Rinconcito Latino Sunset has 35 prior inspections on record and drew 8 high-severity violations this week, including food from unapproved sources, improper cooking temperatures, and chemical storage failures. Bocas House has 36 prior inspections and drew 6 high-severity violations this week. Toasted Bagelry and Deli has 31 prior inspections, as does Caribe Cafeteria Restaurant. Mr Baker has 30. The volume of prior visits at those locations means inspectors have been documenting problems for years, and the same categories of violations continue to appear.
Charlatam Restaurant and Bar has 21 prior inspections and drew 9 high-severity violations this week, including food from unapproved sources and shell stock failures. Suviche has 25 prior inspections and drew three separate handwashing violations in a single visit. Deli and Antojitos has 27 prior inspections and still drew citations for food not cooked to required minimum temperature and improper use of time as a public health control.
On the other end of the record, Le Specialita/Kryu has only 2 prior inspections and already drew 14 high-severity violations, the highest total of any facility in Miami-Dade this week. Sak Pase Restaurant has 11 prior inspections and drew 5 high-severity violations including an improper sewage disposal citation. Miami Slice has 12 prior inspections and drew citations for failure to follow specialized process procedures alongside undercooking violations.
Citadel has 16 prior inspections and drew 10 high-severity violations this week, including the management failure triad of no person in charge, no health policy, and employees not reporting illness. That combination at a location with 16 inspections on record is not a new restaurant finding its footing. It is a pattern that inspectors have now had 16 opportunities to observe.
Toasted Bagelry and Deli's intermediate citation for inadequate cooling and cold holding equipment stands unresolved in this week's record. Equipment that cannot maintain required temperatures does not fix itself between inspections.