CORAL GABLES, FL. State inspectors walked into Salumeria 104 on Miracle Mile on June 19 and found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means no government inspector ever checked that food before it reached customers' plates. The restaurant stayed open.
The June 19 inspection produced eight high-severity violations and one intermediate citation. It was the worst single inspection the Coral Gables Italian market and restaurant has had in at least two years of records.
What Inspectors Found
The food sourcing violation stands out. When a restaurant sources product from unapproved or unknown suppliers, that food has bypassed USDA and FDA inspection entirely. There is no chain of custody if someone gets sick, no way to trace the product back to its origin, and no record that it was handled safely before it arrived.
The undercooking violation compounds that. Food arriving from an unverified source, then not cooked to the temperatures required to kill Salmonella, Listeria, or E. coli, represents two compounding failures in the same meal.
Toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled near food areas is a different category of danger entirely. That violation is not about slow-developing bacterial contamination. It is about the immediate risk of chemical poisoning if a mislabeled container is used on a food surface or, worse, mistaken for a food ingredient.
Inspectors also cited the restaurant for inadequate handwashing by employees, food contact surfaces that were not properly cleaned or sanitized, food found in poor condition or adulterated, and the improper use of time as a public health control. A ninth citation, at the intermediate level, flagged inadequate cooling and cold-holding equipment.
What These Violations Mean
The consumer advisory violation is easy to miss but matters for specific customers. Salumeria 104 is an Italian market with a menu that includes cured meats and dishes that may involve raw or undercooked components. Without a posted advisory, customers who are pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, or very young have no way of knowing they are eating food that carries a heightened risk. That disclosure is not optional under state law.
The time-as-public-health-control violation requires some explanation. Florida rules allow restaurants to keep certain foods in the temperature danger zone, between 41 and 135 degrees, for limited periods without refrigeration, but only if strict time logs are kept and the food is discarded at the end of that window. When that system is not properly followed, food that should have been thrown out may still be served.
The equipment citation ties directly to the temperature violations. If the cold-holding equipment cannot maintain 41 degrees or below, every food stored in it is at risk of bacterial growth, regardless of how carefully staff handles it otherwise. A broken cooler is not a paperwork problem. It is a systemic failure that affects every item in the unit.
Taken together, the eight high-severity violations document failures at nearly every critical control point in the operation: sourcing, cooking, holding, surface sanitation, handwashing, and chemical storage.
The Longer Record
The June 19 inspection was not an aberration. State records show Salumeria 104 has been inspected 27 times and has accumulated 187 total violations across that history. The restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
The prior eight inspections alone tell a consistent story. Inspectors found high-severity violations at every single visit going back to March 2023. The September 2025 inspection produced six high-severity citations. The February 2026 inspection, just four months before the June visit, produced four high-severity violations and one intermediate. Neither triggered a closure.
The pattern is not one of occasional lapses. High-severity violations appeared at four of the five inspections conducted between May 2024 and February 2026, with counts ranging from one to six per visit. The June 2026 inspection, with eight, is the highest single-visit total in the recent record.
The Longer Record in Context
A restaurant accumulating 187 violations over 27 inspections, with high-severity citations at every recent visit, is not a facility working through a rough stretch. It is a facility with a documented, multi-year pattern of serious deficiencies across multiple violation categories.
What changed on June 19 is the scale. Eight high-severity violations in a single inspection, including food from unapproved sources, undercooking, and toxic chemicals near food, is a significant escalation from the four-violation visits that preceded it.
Salumeria 104 on Miracle Mile was open for business after inspectors left.