MIAMI, FL. Three restaurants across Miami-Dade and Miami Beach each accumulated 11 high-severity violations during a single inspection week, leading a sweep of South Florida's tri-county region that turned up serious food safety failures at 15 establishments between October 13 and October 19, 2026.
The Worst of the Week
La Hormiga de Oro III on SW 147th Avenue in Miami drew the most alarming cluster of violations. Inspectors cited the restaurant for food from an unapproved or unknown source, food in poor condition or adulterated, inadequate shell stock records, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, and food not cooked to the required minimum temperature. On top of that, no person in charge was present or performing duties, no employee health policy was in place, and employees were not reporting symptoms of illness.
Habana 1900 on Coral Way matched that total with its own 11 high-severity violations. Inspectors found the same absent-management trifecta, no employee health policy, and employees not reporting symptoms. They also documented inadequate handwashing facilities, improper hand and arm washing technique, food from an unapproved source, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, and improper use of time as a public health control.
Churros Manolo on Collins Avenue, a tourist-facing spot on Miami Beach, also hit 11 high-severity violations. The list included no person in charge, no employee health policy, employees not reporting symptoms, inadequate handwashing by food employees, inadequate handwashing facilities, food from an unapproved source, parasite destruction procedures not followed, and food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized.
Collins Avenue drew a second serious inspection the same week. El Sazon Cubano at 7305 Collins Ave, less than a block from Churros Manolo, accumulated 9 high-severity violations. Inspectors cited employees not reporting symptoms of illness, food from an unapproved source, parasite destruction procedures not followed, food contact surfaces not cleaned, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, improper use of time as a public health control, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
Across the Counties
In Broward County, Doughboys Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant on SE 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale led the county with 10 high-severity violations. Inspectors documented no person in charge, no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing by food employees, improper handwashing technique, inadequate shell stock records, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
Shahi Indopak Restaurant on North University Drive in Lauderhill drew 9 high-severity violations, including food contaminated by chemical, physical, or biological hazards and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, alongside inadequate handwashing, improper technique, no employee health policy, inadequate shell stock records, and no consumer advisory.
Las Colinas Restaurant on North Andrews Avenue in Wilton Manors also reached 9 high-severity violations. Inspectors cited food from an unapproved source, food not cooked to the required minimum temperature, no consumer advisory, inadequate shell stock records, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, no employee health policy, employees not reporting symptoms, and improper handwashing technique.
Bagel Time Cafe on North SR 7 in Margate reached 10 high-severity violations. The citation list included food contaminated by chemical, physical, or biological hazards, food from an unapproved source, food in poor condition or adulterated, inadequate shell stock records, no employee health policy, employees not reporting symptoms, no person in charge, and improper handwashing technique.
Palm Beach County's sole entry this week was Eggscetera Cafe on Lantana Road in Lake Worth, which drew 9 high-severity violations. Inspectors found no person in charge, no employee health policy, employees not reporting symptoms, inadequate handwashing facilities, improper handwashing technique, inadequate shell stock records, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, and improper use of time as a public health control.
Back in Miami-Dade, Feel Good Coffee Lounge on NW 107th Avenue in Hialeah accumulated 10 high-severity violations, including food from an unapproved source, inadequate shell stock records, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, no person in charge, no employee health policy, employees not reporting symptoms, and improper handwashing technique.
Xixon Spanish Restaurant on SW 22nd Street in Miami reached 9 high-severity violations with no intermediate violations at all. Inspectors cited inadequate handwashing by food employees, improper handwashing technique, food from an unapproved source, food in poor condition or adulterated, inadequate shell stock records, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, improper use of time as a public health control, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
Latin American Grill on NW 79th Court in Miami Lakes drew 6 high-severity violations, including two involving toxic substances: chemicals improperly stored or labeled, and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used. Inspectors also cited inadequate shell stock records, parasite destruction procedures not followed, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
Happy Buffet on West 49th Street in Hialeah drew 3 high-severity violations: no employee health policy, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
Hampton Inn Dadeland on SW 70th Avenue in Miami drew 2 high-severity violations, both involving food contact surfaces not properly cleaned and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
Sky Coffee Buenos Aires Inc on SW 2nd Avenue in Miami drew 1 high-severity violation for food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, alongside an intermediate violation for improper sewage or wastewater disposal.
What These Violations Mean
The most consequential cluster this week involves the combination of no employee health policy, no person in charge, and employees not reporting symptoms of illness, a trio that appeared together at La Hormiga de Oro III, Habana 1900, Churros Manolo, Bagel Time Cafe, Feel Good Coffee Lounge, Doughboys Pizzeria, and Eggscetera Cafe. When all three are present simultaneously, a sick employee has no written guidance telling them to stay home, no supervisor checking whether they should be working, and no mechanism for reporting symptoms before they handle food. Norovirus, which causes roughly 20 million illnesses annually in the United States, spreads most efficiently through exactly this gap.
Food from unapproved or unknown sources, cited at La Hormiga de Oro III, Habana 1900, Churros Manolo, Feel Good Coffee Lounge, Bagel Time Cafe, El Sazon Cubano, Las Colinas, and Xixon Spanish Restaurant, means the supply chain for that food bypassed federal inspection. If a customer gets sick, investigators cannot trace the product back to its origin. That traceability gap is the reason unapproved sourcing is treated as a high-severity violation rather than a paperwork issue.
Parasite destruction procedures not followed, cited at Latin American Grill, Churros Manolo, and El Sazon Cubano, is a violation that applies specifically to raw or undercooked fish and certain meats. Without proper freezing at verified temperatures or thorough cooking, parasites including Anisakis in fish and Trichinella in pork survive to infect customers. At Churros Manolo and El Sazon Cubano, this violation appeared alongside the absence of any consumer advisory warning customers that raw or undercooked items were on the menu.
The toxic chemical violations at Latin American Grill and Shahi Indopak Restaurant represent a separate and immediate hazard. Improperly stored or unlabeled chemicals near food preparation areas can contaminate food directly, and mislabeled containers create acute poisoning risk if a worker mistakes a cleaning chemical for a food ingredient.
The Longer Record
Several facilities in this week's data carry inspection histories that place the current findings in a longer context. Doughboys Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale and Las Colinas Restaurant in Wilton Manors both carry SEA license numbers in the 1,619,000 range, indicating they have been operating and accumulating inspection records for years. Shahi Indopak Restaurant in Lauderhill carries a similarly long record. For established restaurants with extensive inspection histories to still be drawing 9 and 10 high-severity violations in a single visit suggests the violations documented this week are not anomalies.
Bagel Time Cafe in Margate carries a license number in the same long-standing range, yet inspectors found food contaminated by chemical, physical, or biological hazards alongside food from an unapproved source and food in poor condition. Those are not procedural oversights. They are violations that indicate active food safety failures at the time of the inspection.
Several Miami-Dade facilities carry SEA numbers in the 2,330,000 to 2,338,000 range, suggesting they are newer operations. Feel Good Coffee Lounge in Hialeah, with a license number of SEA2338733, is among the most recently licensed facilities in this week's data, yet it drew 10 high-severity violations. Churros Manolo and El Sazon Cubano, both on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach and both in the 2,328,000 to 2,330,500 range, are also relatively newer entrants. For a coffee lounge and a tourist-corridor restaurant to accumulate this volume of high-severity violations early in their inspection histories is a pattern inspectors will be watching.
Eggscetera Cafe in Lake Worth was the only Palm Beach County facility in this week's data with 3 or more high-severity violations. It was also the only facility in Palm Beach County to appear at all, making it the county's sole representative in a week when the tri-county region logged 15 facilities with serious citations.
