MIAMI, FL. Inspectors visiting Umami at 1400 NW 87th Ave on June 10, 2026 found that the restaurant was sourcing food from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means no federal safety inspection stands between that food and the customer's plate. The restaurant logged 7 high-severity violations and 5 intermediate violations that day. It was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food source violation is the kind that makes outbreak investigators' jobs impossible after the fact. When food enters a kitchen without a traceable supply chain, there is no way to identify a contaminated lot, no way to issue a recall, and no way to warn other customers who may have already eaten the same product.
Inspectors also found that food was not being cooked to required minimum temperatures. That means pathogens that cooking is supposed to kill were not being killed.
Toxic chemicals were improperly stored or labeled somewhere in the facility. That is a separate category of risk entirely, one that has nothing to do with bacteria and everything to do with acute poisoning.
Employees were not reporting illness symptoms, and handwashing technique was cited as improper. Those two violations together describe a kitchen where sick workers may have been handling food, and where even the workers who weren't sick were leaving pathogens on their hands after attempting to wash them.
What These Violations Mean
The unapproved food source violation is not a paperwork problem. USDA and FDA inspections exist to catch contamination at the supplier level, before product reaches a restaurant. Food that bypasses that chain can carry Listeria, Salmonella, or other pathogens with no prior detection. If someone gets sick from that food at Umami, investigators have no supplier record to trace back through.
The cooking temperature violation compounds that risk directly. If contaminated food enters the kitchen and is then undercooked, the last line of defense, heat, is also removed. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. The violation record does not specify which food items were affected.
The illness reporting and handwashing violations describe a facility where the human transmission route is also open. Norovirus, one of the most contagious foodborne pathogens, spreads through exactly this pathway: a sick employee who doesn't report symptoms, handles food, and doesn't wash hands correctly. A single infected worker can trigger a multi-victim outbreak from a single shift.
The improper sewage disposal violation, listed as intermediate, is not minor. Raw sewage in a food preparation environment carries fecal contamination risk throughout the facility. Combined with improperly cleaned utensils and reused single-use items also cited that day, the June 10 inspection describes a facility with contamination risks operating on multiple simultaneous vectors.
The Longer Record
The June 10 inspection does not represent a new low for Umami. It represents a continuation of a pattern that state records have documented across 29 inspections and 545 total violations.
Two days before the June 10 visit, on June 8, inspectors found 11 high-severity violations and 5 intermediate violations at the same location. That visit produced a higher high-severity count than the one that followed it. The restaurant was not closed after that inspection either.
Umami has been emergency-closed twice, both times for roach activity. Inspectors shut the restaurant down on September 9, 2024 after finding roaches, and it reopened the following day. The same sequence repeated on October 21, 2025: closed for roaches, reopened October 22. The October 22 reopening inspection itself found 3 high-severity violations, meaning the facility cleared the closure threshold while still carrying serious violations.
The inspection on April 22, 2024 produced 13 high-severity violations. The September 9, 2024 closure visit produced 14. The pattern across the eight most recent inspections shows no sustained period where high-severity violations dropped to zero or near zero. The lowest recent count in the record, 3 high-severity violations on October 22, 2025, was the follow-up to an emergency closure.
Still Open
Florida's emergency closure threshold requires an inspector to determine that conditions pose an immediate threat to public health. On June 10, 2026, with unapproved food sources, undercooked food, improperly stored toxic chemicals, sick employees not reporting symptoms, and improper handwashing technique all documented in the same visit, the inspector did not make that determination at Umami.
The restaurant, which has accumulated 545 violations across 29 inspections and been emergency-closed twice for roaches, remained open for service.