SUNRISE, FL. State inspectors found that Ten Ten Seafood & Grill on Sunset Strip was not following parasite destruction procedures for fish on June 22, a failure that can leave live Anisakis worms and tapeworm larvae in seafood served to customers at a restaurant that bills itself as a seafood destination.
That was one of eight high-severity violations documented that day. The restaurant was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The parasite destruction failure sits at the center of the June 22 report. Proper freezing protocols, specifically holding fish at sufficiently low temperatures for defined periods, are the standard kill step for parasites in fish intended to be served raw or undercooked. Without that step, parasites survive to the plate.
Inspectors also cited the restaurant for having no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods. That means customers who are elderly, pregnant, or immunocompromised had no notice that the food they ordered carried elevated risk.
Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized, and food was not cooked to required minimum temperatures. Those two violations together describe a kitchen where pathogens introduced on raw product can survive both the surface and the heat.
Employees were not reporting symptoms of illness. A person in charge was not present or not performing duties.
The shell stock identification violation adds a traceability problem specific to oysters, clams, and mussels. Without proper tags and records for shellfish lots, there is no way to trace the source if customers become sick.
What These Violations Mean
The parasite destruction failure is not a paperwork problem. Anisakis, a roundworm found in wild-caught fish, causes severe abdominal pain, vomiting, and in some cases requires surgical removal from the gut lining. Proper freezing kills it. Skipping that step and serving the fish anyway transfers that risk directly to the customer.
The employee illness reporting violation is how outbreaks start. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness in restaurant settings, spreads through food handled by a symptomatic worker. A kitchen where employees are not required to report symptoms has no mechanism to pull a sick worker off food preparation before the damage is done.
Inadequate shell stock records matter because shellfish are filter feeders that concentrate bacteria and viruses from the water they grow in. If a customer gets sick from an oyster at Ten Ten Seafood and Grill, and the lot tags are missing or incomplete, health investigators cannot identify the harvest area, cannot pull product from other restaurants that received the same lot, and cannot stop the exposure.
Improper handwashing technique means that even when a worker goes through the motion of washing their hands, pathogens remain. Combined with unsanitized food contact surfaces and undercooked food, that describes a kitchen where multiple standard barriers against contamination were absent at the same time.
The Longer Record
Ten Ten Seafood & Grill: Recent Inspection History
The June 22 inspection was not an anomaly. State records show Ten Ten Seafood and Grill has been inspected 47 times and has accumulated 514 total violations. The restaurant has been emergency-closed four times, including once for rodent activity in October 2023, again for rodent activity in October 2024, and a third time for roach and fly activity in December 2024.
The December 2024 closure is worth holding alongside the June 2026 numbers. Inspectors found 8 high-severity violations and 2 intermediate violations on December 27, forced a closure, and cleared the restaurant to reopen December 28. The June 22 inspection produced the same count of high-severity violations. This time, no closure followed.
The September 2025 inspection produced 12 high-severity violations and 5 intermediate violations, the worst single-visit count in the recent record. Two months later, in November 2025, inspectors returned and found 9 high and 3 intermediate violations. The pattern across 2025 and into 2026 is not a facility correcting itself between visits.
Still Open
A follow-up inspection was conducted the day after the June 22 visit, on June 23. That inspection found 1 high-severity violation and 1 intermediate violation still present.
The restaurant was not closed after the June 22 inspection. It was not closed after the June 23 follow-up. Customers who walked in during that stretch had no notice from the state that eight simultaneous high-severity violations had been documented inside, including the failure to destroy parasites in fish.