MIAMI, FL. La Bodega Restaurant on SW 88th Street racked up 11 high-severity violations during the week of April 27, including food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, no written employee health policy, employees not reporting illness symptoms, and inadequate handwashing facilities, making it the most-cited facility in Miami-Dade County's latest inspection cycle.
Fifteen Miami restaurants drew high-severity citations between April 27 and May 3, 2026. The records show violations concentrated in three overlapping categories: handwashing failures, food from unverifiable sources, and the absence of any management oversight when inspectors arrived.
The Week's Worst Findings
KYU on NW 25th Street matched La Bodega's count at 11 high-severity violations. Inspectors cited the Wynwood restaurant for food from unapproved sources, failure to follow parasite destruction procedures for fish, food not cooked to required minimum temperatures, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, and employees not reporting illness symptoms.
Taco Rico on SW 8th Street drew 10 high-severity citations, among them parasite destruction failures, food not cooked to required minimum temperatures, inadequate shellfish identification records, and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled near food.
Go-Go on Alton Road also reached 10 high-severity violations. No person in charge was present when inspectors arrived. Employees were not reporting illness symptoms. Food came from unapproved or unknown sources, and shellfish traceability records were inadequate.
Kami-Koi Sushi Fusion on SW 56th Street collected 9 high-severity citations including no person in charge, no employee health policy, inadequate handwashing facilities, food not cooked to required minimum temperatures, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items on the menu.
Paseo Catracho on SW 8th Street drew 9 high-severity violations including food from unapproved sources, improperly stored toxic chemicals, no consumer advisory for raw foods, and inadequate shellfish identification records.
El Rio Lindo Cafe Corp on SW 12th Avenue matched that count with 9 high-severity findings: inadequate handwashing by employees, no proper handwashing facilities, food from unapproved sources, food not cooked to required temperatures, and missing shellfish traceability records.
Reys Pizza #6 on SW 137th Avenue logged 8 high-severity violations, including food in poor condition or adulterated, two separate toxic substance citations, food from unapproved sources, and food not cooked to required minimum temperatures.
Canton Lee on SW 56th Street drew 8 high-severity citations including no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness symptoms, food not cooked to required temperatures, and time as a public health control not properly applied.
Il Bambino Italian Kitchen on SW 40th Street was cited for 7 high-severity violations including no person in charge, no adequate handwashing facilities, parasite destruction procedures not followed, and toxic chemicals improperly stored.
94th Aero Squadron on NW 57th Avenue drew 7 high-severity violations including food from unapproved sources, food not cooked to required minimum temperatures, toxic substances improperly identified or stored, and improper sewage disposal among its intermediate citations.
Mr and Mrs Bun on SW 72nd Street was cited for 6 high-severity violations, including no employee health policy, food not cooked to required minimum temperatures, improperly stored toxic chemicals, and improper sewage disposal.
Café Bea on SW 142nd Avenue drew 4 high-severity violations including toxic substances improperly stored or used, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, no consumer advisory for raw foods, and improper handwashing technique.
The Chinese Restaurant on SW 112th Street was cited for 3 high-severity violations alongside improper sewage disposal and single-use items being reused.
Los Catrachos on W Flagler Street was the only facility in this week's group to draw no high-severity violations, with a single intermediate citation for improperly cleaned multi-use utensils.
What These Violations Mean
Food from unapproved or unknown sources, cited at La Bodega, KYU, Go-Go, Paseo Catracho, El Rio Lindo, Reys Pizza #6, and 94th Aero Squadron, is one of the hardest violations to walk back after someone gets sick. When a supplier is unverified, there is no chain of custody to trace. If a customer becomes ill after eating shellfish or raw fish at one of these locations, investigators have no documentation to follow. The shellfish traceability failures at La Bodega, Taco Rico, Go-Go, Paseo Catracho, and El Rio Lindo compound this: oysters, clams, and mussels are frequently consumed raw, and without harvest tags or source records, a contaminated batch cannot be identified or recalled.
The cluster of employee illness violations across La Bodega, KYU, Kami-Koi, Go-Go, Canton Lee, Il Bambino, 94th Aero Squadron, and others represents the most direct transmission pathway from kitchen to customer. Norovirus, which causes the majority of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurant settings, spreads through a single infected food handler who does not report symptoms. A written health policy is not paperwork for its own sake. It is the mechanism that keeps a sick employee off the line.
Parasite destruction failures at KYU, Taco Rico, and Il Bambino are specific to restaurants serving raw or lightly cooked fish and meat. Fish intended for raw consumption must be frozen to specific temperatures for specific durations to kill parasites including Anisakis and tapeworm species. When that step is skipped or undocumented, customers eating sushi, ceviche, or rare preparations have no protection.
Toxic chemical storage violations appeared at Taco Rico, The Chinese Restaurant, Paseo Catracho, Reys Pizza #6, Canton Lee, Mr and Mrs Bun, Il Bambino, and 94th Aero Squadron. Cleaning agents stored near or above food preparation surfaces can contaminate food directly through spills or mislabeling. At Café Bea, inspectors cited toxic substances improperly identified, stored, and used, a finding that covers all three failure points simultaneously.
The Longer Record
La Bodega's 11 high-severity violations this week sit against a background of 49 prior inspections on record, the deepest history of any facility in this week's group. Forty-nine inspections represent years of regulatory contact. The violations documented this week, including the absence of any employee health policy and food sourced from suppliers inspectors could not verify, are not the kind of problems that appear without warning.
The Chinese Restaurant carries 33 prior inspections. Mr and Mrs Bun has 37 on record. Both facilities drew violations this week in categories, including sewage disposal and reuse of single-use items, that suggest infrastructure and operational habits rather than isolated oversights.
Go-Go on Alton Road has 28 prior inspections. Paseo Catracho has 30. Both drew 9 or more high-severity citations this week, and both were missing a person in charge when inspectors arrived, a condition that tends to correlate with compounding failures across every other category.
Canton Lee has 20 prior inspections, the shortest record among the facilities with 8 or more high-severity violations this week. It is also among the newer operations in the group. The absence of an employee health policy and employees not reporting illness symptoms at a facility still relatively early in its inspection history suggests those practices were never established, not that they eroded over time. KYU, with 24 prior inspections and 11 high-severity citations this week, is in a similar position: the volume of violations is not consistent with a facility that has been building and losing compliance. It is consistent with a facility where core food safety systems were not in place when inspectors walked in.