DELRAY BEACH, FL. State inspectors visiting Nana Noodle & Sushi Bar at 5195 W. Atlantic Ave. on August 5 found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers being served at a restaurant whose menu includes raw fish, shellfish, and other items that carry elevated health risk when their origins cannot be verified.
The inspection turned up seven high-severity violations and one intermediate violation. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food source violation is one of the most serious an inspector can document at a restaurant that serves raw preparations. Food sourced outside licensed, inspected suppliers has not been reviewed by USDA or FDA, meaning there is no chain of custody if a customer becomes ill.
That violation was compounded by a separate citation for inadequate shell stock identification records. Shellfish, including oysters, clams, and mussels, are among the highest-risk foods on any menu because they are often consumed raw or barely cooked. State law requires restaurants to keep harvest tags for every batch of shellfish received, so health officials can trace a contaminated lot if diners get sick. On August 5, those records were not in order.
The inspector also cited the restaurant for having no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods. Florida law requires restaurants serving items like sushi-grade fish, raw oysters, or undercooked proteins to display a written warning so that customers with compromised immune systems, elderly diners, pregnant women, and young children can make informed decisions. That warning was absent.
Food contact surfaces, the cutting boards, prep surfaces, and utensils that touch food directly, were found not properly cleaned or sanitized. Improperly cleaned surfaces are a direct pathway for bacterial transfer between raw and ready-to-eat foods.
Employees were not reporting symptoms of illness, and handwashing facilities were cited as inadequate. Both violations hit the same nerve: a sick employee who cannot properly wash hands, working on food that will be served raw, represents one of the most direct transmission routes to a dining room outbreak.
The person in charge was either not present or not performing supervisory duties. That finding alone tends to predict the rest of the list.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of unapproved food sourcing and missing shellfish traceability records is particularly consequential at a sushi bar. If a customer develops a Vibrio or norovirus infection after eating oysters or raw fish at Nana Noodle and Sushi Bar, health investigators need harvest tags and supplier records to trace the contaminated batch, identify other affected restaurants, and stop additional illnesses. Without those records, the investigation dead-ends at the restaurant's door.
The illness-reporting failure is a separate but compounding risk. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of food-related illness, is shed in enormous quantities by infected food handlers. A worker who does not report symptoms, who then cannot wash hands properly because facilities are inadequate, and who is preparing food that will be served raw, sits at the center of exactly how multi-victim outbreaks begin.
The missing consumer advisory matters most to the people least able to recover from a foodborne illness. A diner with a weakened immune system choosing between a cooked entree and a raw preparation deserves the information to make that call. On August 5, Nana Noodle and Sushi Bar was not providing it.
CDC data cited in the inspection records notes that establishments without active managerial control document three times more critical violations than those with engaged supervision. The absence of a responsible person in charge on August 5 is consistent with that pattern, and the seven high-severity findings that followed.
The Longer Record
August 5 was not an aberration. The restaurant has 27 inspections on record and 131 total violations accumulated across those visits.
The six months before this inspection tell a clear story. In February 2026, inspectors documented six high-severity violations. In October 2025, two high-severity violations. In June 2025, two high-severity and two intermediate violations. The restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
Going further back, September 2024 produced back-to-back inspections in the same month, one on September 11 with three high-severity and three intermediate violations, and a follow-up on September 4 that showed four high-severity and two intermediate violations. December 2023 added five more high-severity citations.
The one clean inspection in this window, zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations on August 9, 2023, stands as the exception across three years of records.
Seven high-severity violations on a single inspection day, at a restaurant with 131 prior violations across 27 inspections, serving raw fish and shellfish from sources inspectors could not verify. Nana Noodle and Sushi Bar was open for business when the inspector left.
