MIAMI, FL. A Brickell cafe accumulated 10 high-severity violations in a single inspection this week, including food sourced from unapproved suppliers, shellfish with no traceability records, and fish served without required parasite-destruction procedures, the worst single-facility tally among 15 South Florida restaurants cited for three or more high-severity violations between May 18 and May 24, 2026.
The Worst of the Week
Maman at 98 SE 8th Street drew the week's highest violation count, with inspectors documenting food in poor condition, inadequate handwashing by employees, improper handwashing technique, food not cooked to minimum required temperatures, and a failure to follow parasite-destruction procedures for fish. The facility also lacked adequate shellfish traceability records and had food contact surfaces that were not properly cleaned or sanitized.
Two of Maman's 10 high-severity findings stand apart from the rest: food from an unapproved or unknown source, and shellfish with no identification records. Those two violations together mean inspectors could not confirm where the restaurant's food came from or trace its shellfish supply back to a certified harvest site.
B and B Bistro/Bakery at 1023 Kane Concourse in Bal Harbour followed with nine high-severity violations. The inspector found no person in charge present or performing duties, inadequate handwashing facilities, food from unapproved sources, parasite-destruction procedures not followed, food not cooked to minimum temperature, and no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked items.
Vice City Pizza at 2615 SW 147th Avenue also accumulated nine high-severity violations, including toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, no employee health policy, and food in poor condition. It was one of two facilities this week where inspectors cited toxic chemical storage alongside multiple food-handling failures.
What Inspectors Found Across Three Counties
In Broward County, Chow Time Grill and Buffet at 6997 W Commercial Boulevard in Tamarac drew eight high-severity violations. Inspectors found no person in charge, no employee health policy, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improper handwashing technique, food from unapproved sources, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, time as a public health control not properly used, and toxic chemicals stored or labeled incorrectly. That combination, illness reporting failures layered on top of management absence and unapproved food sourcing, is among the most dangerous clusters documented this week.
Also in Broward, TacoCraft Taqueria and Tequila Bar at 4400 N Ocean Drive in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea was cited for eight high-severity violations. The beachside taqueria had no person in charge, no employee health policy, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improper handwashing technique, inadequate shellfish traceability records, food not cooked to minimum temperature, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items, and toxic chemicals improperly stored. TacoCraft sits steps from the Atlantic in one of Broward's busiest tourist corridors.
Palm Beach County's sole entry this week was El Riconcito Colombiano at 3027 Forest Hill Boulevard in Palm Springs. Inspectors found no person in charge present and an employee not reporting illness symptoms, along with an intermediate violation for improper sewage or wastewater disposal.
Back in Miami-Dade, Sabores Latinos at 860 Washington Avenue on Miami Beach drew eight high-severity violations, including two separate chemical-related citations: toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used. Inspectors also found no person in charge, no employee health policy, improper handwashing technique, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, food not cooked to minimum temperature, and no consumer advisory.
Moon Thai and Japanese at 16311 SW 88th Street in Miami accumulated eight high-severity and six intermediate violations, the highest combined total of any facility this week. The dual chemical citations matched Sabores Latinos: toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used. Inspectors also documented inadequate shellfish traceability records and time as a public health control not properly used.
Bahamas Fish Market and Restaurant #2 at 13399 SW 42nd Street drew seven high-severity violations, including food in poor condition, time as a public health control not properly used, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items, and the same dual toxic-substance citations.
Motek at 2701 Collins Avenue on Miami Beach, a Collins Avenue restaurant in one of the city's most trafficked tourist blocks, was cited for four high-severity violations: an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improper handwashing technique, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, and food not cooked to minimum required temperature.
Lovett Sand Bar and Kitchen at 6752 Collins Avenue, also on Miami Beach, drew seven high-severity violations, including parasite-destruction procedures not followed, food not cooked to minimum temperature, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items. Two Collins Avenue restaurants appearing in the same week's high-severity list is notable given the volume of tourists dining along that corridor.
Naked Taco at 1111 Collins Avenue rounded out the Miami Beach entries with seven high-severity violations. Inspectors cited inadequate shellfish traceability records, parasite-destruction procedures not followed, time as a public health control not properly used, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked food, and toxic chemicals improperly stored.
Beirut Doral at 2475 NW 95th Avenue drew seven high-severity violations, including inadequate handwashing facilities, no person in charge, no employee health policy, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, no consumer advisory, and toxic chemicals improperly stored.
Dona Paulina I at 8263 SW 40th Street and Snappers Fish and Chicken at 18312 NW 7th Avenue each drew two high-severity violations.
What These Violations Mean
The food-from-unapproved-sources citation, documented at Maman, B and B Bistro/Bakery, and Chow Time Grill and Buffet this week, is one of the hardest violations to dismiss as paperwork. When a restaurant cannot identify its food supplier, there is no traceability path if a customer gets sick. Outbreaks caused by contaminated produce or meat from uncertified distributors can take investigators weeks longer to trace, during which time other customers continue eating the same food.
The shellfish traceability failures at Maman, TacoCraft, Moon Thai and Japanese, and Naked Taco carry a specific risk: oysters, clams, and mussels are frequently eaten raw or barely cooked. Without harvest-site tags and receiving records, a facility cannot identify the source of a contaminated batch. Vibrio and norovirus outbreaks tied to shellfish are among the fastest-moving foodborne illness events in Florida.
Parasite-destruction failures, documented at Maman, B and B Bistro/Bakery, Lovett Sand Bar and Kitchen, and Naked Taco, matter most when fish is served raw or undercooked. The procedure requires fish to be frozen to specific temperatures for a set period before raw service. Skipping it does not guarantee a customer will become ill, but it removes the one intervention that kills Anisakis and tapeworm larvae before they reach the plate.
The dual toxic-chemical citations at Sabores Latinos, Moon Thai and Japanese, and Bahamas Fish Market represent a different category of risk entirely. Chemical poisoning from improperly stored or unlabeled cleaners and sanitizers can happen acutely, within minutes, not over hours the way bacterial illness develops. At a restaurant with improperly labeled chemicals stored near food prep areas, a single mislabeled bottle used in the wrong context is the mechanism of harm.
The Longer Record
The data does not provide prior inspection counts for each facility in this week's set, which makes it impossible to say with precision how many times inspectors have visited Maman or B and B Bistro/Bakery before this week. What the violation clusters themselves reveal is a pattern of systemic failures rather than isolated oversights. A facility that simultaneously lacks a person in charge, has no employee health policy, sources food from unknown suppliers, and fails to follow parasite-destruction procedures is not dealing with a single bad day.
Three Collins Avenue addresses appeared in this week's high-severity list: Motek at 2701, Lovett Sand Bar and Kitchen at 6752, and Naked Taco at 1111. Collins Avenue runs the length of Miami Beach and draws some of the highest tourist foot traffic in Florida. Violations at restaurants along that corridor reach a broader and more transient customer base than a neighborhood spot, including visitors who have no way to check inspection history before sitting down.
The illness-reporting failures this week cut across county lines. Motek in Miami Beach, Chow Time Grill and Buffet in Tamarac, TacoCraft in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Moon Thai and Japanese in Miami, and El Riconcito Colombiano in Palm Springs all had employees not reporting illness symptoms. That violation does not mean a sick employee was confirmed working that day. It means the facility had no functioning system to catch one if they were.
B and B Bistro/Bakery in Bal Harbour combined the absence of a person in charge with inadequate handwashing facilities, meaning not only was no manager present to enforce hygiene standards, but the physical infrastructure needed to meet those standards was itself deficient.